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24.3.50; New tty menus crash Emacs

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se, 15575 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15575: 24.3.50; New tty menus crash Emacs
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:44:10 +0200

>>  > The "set new-console on" command causes a new console to be created by
>>  > GDB before it runs the program attached to that console.
>>
>> This works fine.  What is the GNU/Linux equivalent of this?
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: the above commands should work on GNU/Linux
> as well.

There's no such symbol on GNU/Linux.  According to

http://visualgdb.com/gdbreference/commands/set_new-console

this command is only supported on Windows.

> Moreover, on GNU/Linux you can start Emacs as a daemon, attach a
> debugger, and then open a TTY frame with emacsclient.

But this won't help when Emacs crashes during startup, IIUC.

>> I have tried some of the tty commands but failed miserably.
>
> Which tty commands?

set inferior-tty
show inferior-tty

>> (What I want is to run an emacs -nw session from a graphical Emacs
>> GDB window.)
>
> The above commands should work from a graphical session.

Do they for you?

martin

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