Re: Debug Fortran 90 code in Emacs with arguments.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 11:43 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 22:42:02 +0800
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > > > The above description is written before many years (fall 1997), and
> > > > the author may not bet GDB developers. So, why do you give the above
> > > > suggestion?
> > >
> > > Because most of it is still valid for first-time GDB users, and the
> > > GDB manual is not supposed to be the canonical source of information
> > > about Emacs, anyway.
> >
> > 1. If GDB manual is not supposed to be the canonical source of information
> >  about using GDB in Emacs, what should be?
>
> The section in the Emacs manual to which I pointed earlier in this
> thread.  And also the built-in documentation (doc strings) of the
> related variables and commands.  See
>
>   M-x customize-group RET gdb RET

Thank you for pointing this out.

> > 2. According to your suggestion, what bug(s) should I report to GDB 
> > developers?
>
> That the Emacs keybindings they describe are outdated.

Done. See the following information:

from:Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
to:gdb@sourceware.org
date:Apr 7, 2022, 9:59 AM
subject:The Emacs keybindings of "C-x [space]" described in a maybe
still widely referred tutorial are outdated.

Regards,
HZ