Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Caio Henrique]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon 21 Dec 2020, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
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>>
>> Thank you.  It is interesting.
>>
>> One thing I noticed is that there seem to be difficulties in GUD
>> (debugging under Emacs).  That is a gad situation.  Can we encourage
>> users to report the problems, and devote effort to debugging them?
>
> Can you please quote the relevant part of the message you are replying
> to ? It is jarring to read a message without any context. That is a
> discourtesy to readers, who must work harder to find which part of a
> message you are replying to (and some client software makes that harder
> by not threading messages properly).
>
>     AndyM

I think that he is replying to this part of dickmao's survey commentary:

> Gdb in emacs used to be so nice
>Time was M-x gdb worked flawlessly. At some point, gud or "Grand Unified
>Debugger" became the ring to rule them all, with no discernible loss of
>functionality. Then some time in the oughts, things started to go
>sideways, and "realgud" attempted to make debugging great again with
>limited success. Now the latest pretender to the throne is something
>called gdb/mi, with a flashy upstart called "dap-mode" nipping at its
>mud-caked heels, but at this point I'm too accustomed to running gdb
>outside emacs.