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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


  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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