GNU bug report logs - #11365
24.1.50; quitting gdb does not restore window configuration

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Message #14 received at 11365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: sds <at> gnu.org
Cc: 11365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11365: 24.1.50;
	quitting gdb does not restore window configuration
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:51:51 +0300

> From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 11365 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:34:50 -0400
> 
> > * Eli Zaretskii <ryvm <at> tah.bet> [2012-04-27 22:01:27 +0300]:
> >
> >> From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
> >> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:40:07 -0400
> >> 
> >> quit in gdb now removes the gdb windows (which is very good! - except
> >> that the *gud-lisp.run* buffer and window are preserved, which is not so
> >> good) but it does not restore the window configuration which existed
> >> when at M-x gdb RET time.
> >
> > Did it ever do that?  I don't see this in 23.3, for example.
> 
> Until recently (see my bug#11273), quitting gdb did not change the
> window configuration and preserved the stack, locals, &c windows and
> buffers.
> Now that was fixed and all those subsidiary buffers and windows are
> killed.
> 
> however, the original window configuration is not restored, which is
> wrong, and, also, the *gud* window is preserved, which is also wrong.

Then I guess you are requesting a new feature.

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