# HG changeset patch
# User Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
# Date 958768518 0
# Node ID c547172f003f4ddb0f0ae563396f72a6657cb421
# Parent  f8bcf3bec2a684d5aa9dd2f375ba79067bae6381
(gud-jdb-directories): Doc fix.

diff -r f8bcf3bec2a6 -r c547172f003f lisp/gud.el
--- a/lisp/gud.el	Fri May 19 20:33:58 2000 +0000
+++ b/lisp/gud.el	Fri May 19 20:35:18 2000 +0000
@@ -1545,7 +1545,15 @@
 ;; List of Java source file directories.
 (defvar gud-jdb-directories (list ".")
   "*A list of directories that gud jdb should search for source code.
-The file names should be absolute, or relative to the current directory.")
+The file names should be absolute, or relative to the current
+directory.
+
+The set of .java files residing in the directories listed are
+syntactically analyzed to determine the classes they define and the
+packages in which these classes belong.  In this way gud jdb maps the
+package-qualified class names output by the jdb debugger to the source
+file from which the class originated.  This allows gud mode to keep
+the source code display in sync with the debugging session.")
 
 ;; List of the java source files for this debugging session.
 (defvar gud-jdb-source-files nil)