From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8339be5gm9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120117174839.GA8459@host2.jankratochvil.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:48:40 +0100
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > One could argue the converse too ... Having to manually request
> > whatever goodies the developers find useful adds a needless burden.
> > Why can't gdb just auto-adjust itself for debugging the program at
> > hand?
>
> Because it is then different than normal GDB.
>
> It is difficult to argue myself but IMO in a survey between GDB newbies they
> find easier if GDB behaves always the same than if it behaves differently
> according to which program you load into it.
Newbies are not expected to debug GDB or Emacs.
Actually, it is impractical to debug Emacs without the .gdbinit whcih
comes with it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-17 10:16 Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-17 13:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-17 14:49 ` [patch 7.4] Deprecate local .gdbinit [Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default] Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 16:22 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 20:22 ` [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 16:15 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 16:34 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 16:48 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 17:27 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 17:33 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 17:55 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-01-17 18:35 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 19:54 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 18:31 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 18:44 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 19:12 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 19:20 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 19:55 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 20:24 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-17 20:26 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 20:35 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 20:56 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-17 19:30 ` Matt Rice
2012-01-17 19:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 20:26 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-17 18:28 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-17 19:02 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 20:29 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 20:49 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-17 20:54 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 21:10 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 21:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-17 21:14 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-18 4:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-18 19:38 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-18 20:01 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-19 6:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-19 12:57 ` [commit] rm gdb/testsuite/.gdbinit [Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default] Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-19 21:07 ` [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default Tom Tromey
2012-01-19 21:47 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-19 21:53 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-20 4:11 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-19 21:06 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 22:16 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-18 3:05 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-17 16:26 ` Matt Rice
2012-01-17 16:57 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-17 20:09 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-24 0:33 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-24 15:54 ` Jan Kratochvil
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