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Re: [RFA] Resubmit reverse debugging [5/5]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 20:15:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> > What about adding "previous" and either "pr" or "pre" as alias to
> > reverse-next?
> 
> Please, not "pr".  The .gdbinit file that comes with Emacs defines a
> user command named "pr" that prints any Lisp object.  This command is
> central to debugging Emacs, so re-learning its name would be a hassle.

This argument isn't valid.  User defined commands override
GDB's built-in commands, so you'd not lose anything.

pr wouldn't even collide with anything current:

 (gdb) pr
 Ambiguous command "pr": print, print-object, printf, process.

-- 
Pedro Alves
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