# HG changeset patch # User Nick Roberts # Date 1232428840 0 # Node ID 4d93a301c2e4bfb36291a07a43e49107320f25c8 # Parent 91ec06efa693e765b9d234ebd10d8a9a49bdf7bc (Debuggers): Revert some of 2008-10-31 change to raise GUD subsections. diff -r 91ec06efa693 -r 4d93a301c2e4 doc/emacs/building.texi --- a/doc/emacs/building.texi Tue Jan 20 05:19:02 2009 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/building.texi Tue Jan 20 05:20:40 2009 +0000 @@ -449,36 +449,6 @@ @cindex debuggers @cindex GUD library @cindex GDB - -Emacs provides two separate facilities for using external symbolic -debuggers, which are programs for testing and debugging other -programs: -@itemize @bullet -@item -The Grand Unified Debugger (GUD) provides a simple, text-based -interface for a wide variety of symbolic debuggers, including the GNU -Debugger (GDB), the Perl debugger, the Python debugger, and the Java -Debugger. - -@item -The GDB Graphical Interface is an Emacs package that interacts with -GDB to turn Emacs into a graphical ``integrated development -environment'', or IDE. -@end itemize - - In addition, Emacs contains a built-in system for debugging Emacs -Lisp programs. @xref{Debugging,, The Lisp Debugger, elisp, the Emacs -Lisp Reference Manual}, for information on the Emacs Lisp debugger. - -@menu -* GUD:: The Grand Unified Debugger. -* GDB Graphical Interface:: A mode that uses GDB features to implement - a graphical Emacs debugging environment. -@end menu - -@node GUD -@subsection GUD -@cindex GUD library @cindex DBX @cindex SDB @cindex XDB @@ -498,25 +468,36 @@ * Debugger Operation:: Connection between the debugger and source buffers. * Commands of GUD:: Key bindings for common commands. * GUD Customization:: Defining your own commands for GUD. +* GDB Graphical Interface:: An enhanced mode that uses GDB features to + implement a graphical debugging environment through + Emacs. @end menu @node Starting GUD -@subsubsection Starting GUD +@subsection Starting GUD There are several commands for starting a debugger under GUD, each corresponding to a particular debugger program. @table @kbd +@item M-x gdb @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET} +@findex gdb +Run GDB as a subprocess of Emacs. This uses an IDE-like graphical +interface; see @ref{GDB Graphical Interface}. Only GDB works with the +graphical interface. + @item M-x gud-gdb @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET} @findex gud-gdb Run GDB as a subprocess of Emacs. This command creates a buffer for input and output to GDB, and switches to it. If a GDB buffer already -exists, it just switches to that buffer. (To run GDB in an IDE-like -graphical interface instead, see @ref{GDB Graphical Interface}.) +exists, it just switches to that buffer. @item M-x dbx @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET} @findex dbx -Run DBX as a subprocess of Emacs. +Run DBX as a subprocess of Emacs. Since Emacs does not implement a +graphical interface for DBX, communication with DBX works by typing +commands in the GUD interaction buffer. The same is true for all +the other supported debuggers. @item M-x xdb @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET} @findex xdb @@ -568,7 +549,7 @@ Debugging Remote Programs, gdb, The GNU debugger}). @node Debugger Operation -@subsubsection Debugger Operation +@subsection Debugger Operation @cindex fringes, and current execution line in GUD Generally when you run a debugger with GUD, the debugger uses an Emacs @@ -615,7 +596,7 @@ effects. @node Commands of GUD -@subsubsection Commands of GUD +@subsection Commands of GUD The GUD interaction buffer uses a variant of Shell mode, so the Emacs commands of Shell mode are available (@pxref{Shell Mode}). All @@ -772,7 +753,7 @@ Instead, type @kbd{C-q @key{TAB}} to enter a tab. @node GUD Customization -@subsubsection GUD Customization +@subsection GUD Customization @vindex gdb-mode-hook @vindex dbx-mode-hook