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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-09-07 20:37:31 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-09-07 20:37:31 +0300
commit139289426d1b2c90335cec86c5ac19c51bf08bfc (patch)
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; * etc/DEBUG: Minor copyedits.
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@@ -208,10 +208,14 @@ is Fredraw_display, which you can invoke at will interactively with
It is also useful to have a guaranteed way to return to the debugger
at any arbitrary time. When using X, this is easy: type C-z at the
window where you are interacting with GDB, and it will stop Emacs just
-as it would stop any ordinary program. When Emacs is displaying on a
-text terminal, things are not so easy, so we describe the various
-alternatives below (however, those of them that use signals only work
-on Posix systems).
+as it would stop any ordinary program. (This doesn't work if GDB was
+attached to a running Emacs process; in that case, you will need to
+type C-z to the shell window from which Emacs was started, or use the
+"kill -TSTP" method described below.)
+
+When Emacs is displaying on a text terminal, things are not so easy,
+so we describe the various alternatives below (however, those of them
+that use signals only work on Posix systems).
The src/.gdbinit file in the Emacs distribution arranges for SIGINT
(C-g in Emacs on a text-mode frame) to be passed to Emacs and not give