GNU bug report logs - #6128
Suggestion for improving info node "GDB Graphical Interface"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 21:44:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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