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30.0.50; [PATCH] Load GDB history in gud-gdb

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: 67928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67928: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Load GDB history in gud-gdb
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:47:13 +0200

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: 67928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:00:49 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:43:23 +0100
> >> From:  Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> >> 
> >> 'M-x gud-gdb' does not load GDB history by default.  This patch fixes
> >> this.
> >
> > Thanks, but why should we enhance gud-gdb?  It is based on a
> > deprecated GDB feature (annotations), which the GDB developers may
> > remove some day without any advance warning.  It is basically kept in
> > Emacs as a fallback, for those who for some reasons cannot use gdb-mi.
> > And gdb-mi already loads the history.
> >
> > Are there any reasons for you to use gud-gdb?
> 
> I have set 'gdb-many-windows' to 't' but sometimes I like the simpler
> version provided by gud-gdb...  But yes, this reason is not sufficient.
> Before closing this PR, could I modify this patch to, at least, isolate
> history loading into its own function?

Yes, that's fine.

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