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#61162
30.0.50; RET in source files that are being displayed by gud no longer works
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Reported by: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 02:09:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 61271,
62041
Found in version 30.0.50
Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #20 received at 61162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
>> Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>, 61162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:18:15 -0500
>>
>> > If you can find a fix on master, patches would be very welcome.
>> > Failing that, I might eventually decide to revert that commit on
>> > master as well. There's a limit to the efforts I'm prepared to sink
>> > into maintaining what is basically an obsolete package which uses a
>> > GDB feature that GDB developers consider obsolete and may remove any
>> > day (why don't you use "M-x gdb" instead?).
>>
>> I always use "M-x gud-gdb" because, historically, "M-x gdb" didn't
>> support multiple simultaneous gdb sessions. If this is no longer the
>> case, I will see if I can change my habits.
>
> This is no longer the case, if it ever was. What exactly didn't work
> for you when you tried several simultaneous sessions? The buffer
> where you type GDB commands is named "*gud-PROGRAM*", so you have
> separate buffers for different sessions. And if you start each one
> from a separate Emacs frame, you should be able to have separate
> multi-window configurations (see gdb-many-windows) for each session.
Ah, I remember now. It was the ability to debug the same program twice
at once that was lacking. I haven't needed that ability recently. (I
needed it in the past when dealing with a program that connected to
other instances of itself.)
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i <at> md5i.com)
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 72 days ago.
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