bug#17675: 24.4.50; *gud* buffer keeps on getting buried

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> When gud-gdb is started, it uses `switch-to-buffer', which places
>> *gud-foo* in the window previously occupied by foo.c.
>
> Then this is the culprit.  It doesn't make sense to keep the *scratch*
> window around when debugging foo.c because sooner or later gdb will have
> to display foo.c again.  Instead of `switch-to-buffer' we should use
> `display-buffer' here.  Where is this `switch-to-buffer' call issued?

In `gud-common-init'.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)