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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A plea for a Structured Objective-C code browser in 2.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.203816.14508@santra.uucp>
Date: 28 Sep 90 20:38:16 GMT
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In article <8b0fl7i00VI8F4JDp4@andrew.cmu.edu> dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes:
>You are making a mistake.  You should use gnu-emacs, and use gdb-mode.
>You're not using the software that's available to you.  With the
>emacs/gdb combination, you can have a source file in one windown and
>the debugger in another, and as you step through the program with the
>debugger, a little arrow shows you where you are in the source.  You
>can go to the source and hit a key, and the debugger will set a
>breakpoint there.  There are lots of nifty features you could and
>should be using.

If user interfaces are so easy to create with the NeXT, why hasn't anyone
created a gdb-mode for edit or as a standalone application?

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