Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, caiohcs0@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:34 -0500
> 
>   > I didn't interpret what he wrote to mean there's a problem.  I
>   > interpreted it to mean he personally stopped using the Emacs GDB front
>   > end long ago.  So he doesn't really say anything about gdb-mi.el, the
>   > current GDB front end in Emacs.
> 
> I am not sure what he meant, but he seems to claim, in a vague way,
> that it has had problems over the years.  This might refer to real
> problems.  In case that is so, we should ask for details.

He said that about gud.el, which is nowadays obsolete, as far as its
GDB interface is concerned.  We leave its GDB parts in Emacs only
because in some rare cases using annotations works better with GDB
than using the MI interface.