From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
To: John Pye <john.pye@anu.edu.au>,
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 14:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061129141233.GA29477@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061129133748.GC28834@nevyn.them.org>
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:37:48AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
Agreed. I for one do _not_ expect GDB to exit when I type ^c at the
prompt. GDB already has the correct behavior in terms of ^c and ^d.
That is, it behaves like bash.
Bob Rossi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-29 14:12 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
2006-11-29 14:12 ` Bob Rossi [this message]
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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