Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> First, you didn't send a documentation patch.

Apologies, I missed this. I have now added one.

> Second, please tell more about the situations when this option could
> be useful.

The specific case I use it for is in a wrapper utility which calls gdb 
as follows (roughly):

   gdb -nx-except-gdbtkinit -d scriptdir -x globalscript \
         -x ~/.gdbinit -x ./.gdbinit .....

The purpose is (among other things) to set up transparently (to the 
user) a selection of user-defined commands (for connecting and 
configuring target boards) which are available to users in the .gdbinit 
files.

If -nx is used it has undesirable side effects when using Insight.

I'm sure others can think of other purposes for it.

Andrew Stubbs