Re: gdb-ui almosts works in NT

[Jonathan Luntz]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:04:00 +0100
> >
> > The output from the inferior could be sent directly to the input/output buffer
> > but the author of this part of the code from gdba.el (Tom Lord?) used cat
> > because:
> >
> > ;; We want to use comint because it has various nifty and familiar
> > ;; features.  We don't need a process, but comint wants one, so create
> > ;; a dummy one.
> >   
>
> I don't understand why is this important; perhaps someone else does.
>
> > I downloaded Emacs for NT and MinGW for the first time today and this didn't
> > seem to be just a problem with gdb-ui.el. `M-x gdb' from gud.el also sent the
> > output from the inferior to its own DOS window. Even if `gdb mytest' is run in
> > a DOS window (no Emacs) then the inferior outputs to its own DOS window and
> > does not seem able to share the window with gdb like in GNU/Linux.
> >   
>
> Yes, I suspected that much.  Thanks for verifying.

I found something useful.  If you do the command "set new-console off"
at the gdb prompt, it does not open an new dos window, and everything
works properly.  It only works if you do NOT put a -fullname switch on
the gdb command line.  I suppose the right solution would be to have
gdba automatically execute set new-console off when it starts up (I
don;t think there's a command line switch for it.)

Jon