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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-05-07 10:51:09 -0400
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-05-07 10:51:09 -0400
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* building.texi (GDB Graphical Interface): Remove misleading comparison
to an IDE (Bug#6128).
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/building.texi11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 3030466f7fe..2b8482cf53b 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-05-07 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+ * building.texi (GDB Graphical Interface): Remove misleading comparison
+ to an IDE (Bug#6128).
+
2010-05-03 Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> (tiny change)
* programs.texi (Man Page):
diff --git a/doc/emacs/building.texi b/doc/emacs/building.texi
index 6dbd5abf026..41721a8afd0 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/building.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/building.texi
@@ -836,12 +836,11 @@ Fully qualified class name derived from the expression surrounding point
@subsection GDB Graphical Interface
The command @code{gdb} starts GDB in a graphical interface, using
-Emacs windows for display program state information. In effect, this
-makes Emacs into an IDE (interactive development environment). With
-it, you do not need to use textual GDB commands; you can control the
-debugging session with the mouse. For example, you can click in the
-fringe of a source buffer to set a breakpoint there, or on a stack
-frame in the stack buffer to select that frame.
+Emacs windows for display program state information. With it, you do
+not need to use textual GDB commands; you can control the debugging
+session with the mouse. For example, you can click in the fringe of a
+source buffer to set a breakpoint there, or on a stack frame in the
+stack buffer to select that frame.
This mode requires telling GDB that its ``screen size'' is
unlimited, so it sets the height and width accordingly. For correct