Re: Toggle view in gdba

[Nick Roberts]

 > >> > Actually I think it would be better not to use any of these
 > >> > keybindings.  Gud-watch doesn't have a keybindings and I've just
 > >> > remembered why: these commands are really GDB specific and don't work
 > >> > for "gdb -fullname", perldb, pdb etc. Once GDB-UI has been invoked
 > >> > these keybindings are set for all the other debugger modes. As recent
 > >> > discussion has shown, there are still problems with GDB-UI so I don't
 > >> > want to interfere with these other modes, particularly the original
 > >> > gdb mode.
 > 
 > I don't see where's the problem.  If you start GUD with "gdb --fullname"
 > and then another GUD with pdb, things will go wrong as well.  This should be
 > fixed, but it is orthogonal to the gdb-ui support.

I'm talking invoking the modes serially, not about multiple sessions.

 > >> Experimentally, I added new a argument LOCAL to gud-def and added line
 > >> 
 > >> (use-local-map (copy-keymap (current-local-map)))
 > >> 
 > >> to `gdb-ann3'.
 > 
 > This is ugly.  I'd rather just add the gdb-ui keybindings globally.

Ugliness is really the price of having two modes that use GDB. The old
mode needs to be removed, which clearly is not acceptable at the moment.

 > PS: I think what should happen is that gud should use a more traditional
 > keybinding scheme, where the keybindings are "static" (i.e. not changed when
 > you do M-x gdb) and the *commands* then check whether they're talking to
 > gdb, or pdb.

Yes. Lets try that after the release.

Nick