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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: John Pye <john.pye@anu.edu.au>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
		Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>,
	gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061129133748.GC28834@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456D33C6.4050407@anu.edu.au>

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:16:22PM +1100, John Pye wrote:
> The whole thing is that gdb is like a shell. And shells can be exited by
> typing ctrl-D. It's about consistency with other similar tools. That's
> my feeling, anyway.

Did you read the previous replies to your message?  Shells don't exit
when you press C-c and it would be upsetting to at least some users if
GDB did; it does exit if you press C-d at a prompt.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29 13:38 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
2006-11-29  7:16       ` John Pye
2006-11-29 13:38         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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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