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Suggestion for improving info node "GDB Graphical Interface"

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To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6128: closed (Suggestion for improving info node "GDB
 Graphical Interface")
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 14:52:02 +0000

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: bug-emacs <bug-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Suggestion for improving info node "GDB Graphical Interface"
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 22:35:15 +0100

"In effect, this makes Emacs into an IDE (interactive development environment)."

I suggest this sentence be removed. There are two problems: first,
"IDE" stands for "Integrated Development Environment", not
"Interactive Development Environment". Secondly, the GDB Graphical
Interface does not make Emacs either of those things: it is both
already integrated (in this case, for debugging, with the existing
gud-* modes) and interactive (fundamentally). Perhaps the intention of
this sentence is to advertise that this mode can make Emacs more like
a more typical GUI-based IDE, but that dubious both as a statement and
as a wish.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 6128-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: Re: bug#6128: Suggestion for improving info node "GDB Graphical
	Interface"
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 10:51:31 -0400

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:35:15 +0100 Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> wrote:
>
>> "In effect, this makes Emacs into an IDE (interactive development environment)."
>>
>> I suggest this sentence be removed. There are two problems: first,
>> "IDE" stands for "Integrated Development Environment", not
>> "Interactive Development Environment". Secondly, the GDB Graphical
>> Interface does not make Emacs either of those things: it is both
>> already integrated (in this case, for debugging, with the existing
>> gud-* modes) and interactive (fundamentally). Perhaps the intention of
>> this sentence is to advertise that this mode can make Emacs more like
>> a more typical GUI-based IDE, but that dubious both as a statement and
>> as a wish.
>
> I agree the sentence should be removed, which would obviate needing to
> correct its grammar (to either "makes Emacs an IDE" or "turns Emacs into
> an IDE").

I agree.  Committed to the repository.

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