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From: ara@LOM1.MATH.YALE.EDU (Allan Adler)
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Date: 16 Oct 89 06:32:20 GMT
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Subject: gdb and emacs


I am using a SUN which has emacs and gdb installed. I can call gdb
from the shell and I can run emacs. But from emacs, I don't seem to
be able to run gdb by typing M-x gdb as I can on other SUNs. Is there
some way I can configure my .emacs file to permit this ?

I don't know anything about writing lisp to control emacs. By reading
the emacs manual and experimenting a little bit, I was able to do the
following: (1) Type M-x shell to get a shell inside of emacs
	   (2) Type gdb from within that shell, whereupon it seemed a lot
	       like what I was used to.

However, even if (1) and (2) are the ingredients of the M-x gdb command,
I don't know how to put them together to create the M-x gdb command
and I don't know how to make the passage through the shell transparent.

Any suggestions are welcome. I don't subscribe to this list, so please
reply to me directly. Thanks.


Sincerely,
Allan Adler
ara@lom1.math.yale.edu