From: John Pye <john.pye@anu.edu.au>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456D33C6.4050407@anu.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061129050452.GK9968@adacore.com>
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.
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-29 7:16 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 [this message]
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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