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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/progmodes/gud.el')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gud.el b/lisp/progmodes/gud.el index 356cd3e0532..0ac48f5f527 100644 --- a/lisp/progmodes/gud.el +++ b/lisp/progmodes/gud.el @@ -733,9 +733,15 @@ It should return a list of completion strings.") ;; The old gdb command (text command mode). The new one is in gdb-mi.el. ;;;###autoload (defun gud-gdb (command-line) - "Run gdb on program FILE in buffer *gud-FILE*. -The directory containing FILE becomes the initial working -directory and source-file directory for your debugger." + "Run gdb passing it COMMAND-LINE as arguments. +If COMMAND-LINE names a program FILE to debug, gdb will run in +a buffer named *gud-FILE*, and the directory containing FILE +becomes the initial working directory and source-file directory +for your debugger. +If COMMAND-LINE requests that gdb attaches to a process PID, gdb +will run in *gud-PID*, otherwise it will run in *gud*; in these +cases the initial working directory is the default-directory of +the buffer in which this command was invoked." (interactive (list (gud-query-cmdline 'gud-gdb))) (when (and gud-comint-buffer |