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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: John Pye <john.pye@anu.edu.au>
Cc: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061129050452.GK9968@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456CFDF8.10408@anu.edu.au>

> I think that the 'Quit' message is great. But instead of *suggesting*,
> it should ask for confirmation: "Ctrl-C pressed from GDB console. Do you
> want to exit? (y or n)". Then this confirmation could be turned off
> somewhere in the configuration settings.

I must say, as a user, this behavior would sure surprise me. I don't
understand what the problem is with hitting 'q' followed by Enter.
When you think about it, the suggestion above makes it even longer
than it already is.

-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-27  5:38 John Pye
2006-11-27  6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-27  7:43   ` John Pye
2006-11-27 13:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-27 13:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-27 14:46 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-11-29  3:27   ` John Pye
2006-11-29  4:50     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-29  5:04     ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2006-11-29  7:16       ` John Pye
2006-11-29 13:38         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-29 14:12           ` Bob Rossi
2006-11-30  4:01             ` John Pye
2006-11-30  8:32               ` Brian Dessent
2006-11-30 11:58                 ` John Pye
2006-11-30 12:34                   ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-11-30  3:59           ` John Pye
2006-11-30 10:10             ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-11-30 11:51               ` John Pye
2006-11-30 21:49             ` Michael Snyder

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