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Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Nick Roberts <nick at nick dot uklinux dot net>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 31 Jan 2003 23:08:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: [Various] obsoleting the annotate level 2 interface
- References: <15930.55387.208309.948761@nick.uklinux.net><15930.58372.75272.21296@localhost.redhat.com>
Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
> I don't understand. The on line doc is up to date, it is not
> lying. Those commands have not been implememted. We have gone through
> 3 projects (one internal to Cygnus, eclipse, and the apple ui) and
> none of those missing commands was obviously a show stopper. Of course
> those are *new* GUIs and they can be less functional. Emacs cannot go
> backwards because some commands are missing. Does emacs need these
> commands? for instance, does emacs have a window that shows the
> threads of the inferior?
Well, we should be clear, here: the most recent Emacs release uses
only annotation level 1. It's only a not-yet-released Emacs that has
a just-added mode that uses annotation level 2. So if GDB were to
delete annotate level 2 today, Emacs would not lose any functionality.
(I am not suggesting that we delete annotation level 2 today, it's
just a rhetorical device.)