Subject: bug#21777: 25.0.50; gud-gdb uses a pager, which is harmful inside emacs

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:07:06 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I worked up a patch for this, but in testing, there's a number of
>> problems.
>
> Do you see the original problem with a recent version of GDB?  In the
> discussion, I mentioned that the change to follow that of Emacs was
> installed in GDB back then, so it's reasonable to expect that we no
> longer have a problem described in this bug report.

No, the problem is still there -- If you say `M-x gud-gdb' and then
issue a backtrace, then the gdb pager kicks in.

(This problem is not present in `M-x gdb', which tells gdb to switch the
pager off when it starts gdb.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no