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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-09-07 20:37:31 +0300 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-09-07 20:37:31 +0300 |
commit | 139289426d1b2c90335cec86c5ac19c51bf08bfc (patch) | |
tree | 988ecff2b2669fa56b1889b4716ebc1173040115 /etc | |
parent | 304a5c8ef9a7ff86b85ee2b32834f72eb86e17f4 (diff) | |
download | emacs-139289426d1b2c90335cec86c5ac19c51bf08bfc.tar.gz |
; * etc/DEBUG: Minor copyedits.
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diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG index 17c41092a67..8a803e05455 100644 --- a/etc/DEBUG +++ b/etc/DEBUG @@ -208,10 +208,14 @@ is Fredraw_display, which you can invoke at will interactively with It is also useful to have a guaranteed way to return to the debugger at any arbitrary time. When using X, this is easy: type C-z at the window where you are interacting with GDB, and it will stop Emacs just -as it would stop any ordinary program. When Emacs is displaying on a -text terminal, things are not so easy, so we describe the various -alternatives below (however, those of them that use signals only work -on Posix systems). +as it would stop any ordinary program. (This doesn't work if GDB was +attached to a running Emacs process; in that case, you will need to +type C-z to the shell window from which Emacs was started, or use the +"kill -TSTP" method described below.) + +When Emacs is displaying on a text terminal, things are not so easy, +so we describe the various alternatives below (however, those of them +that use signals only work on Posix systems). The src/.gdbinit file in the Emacs distribution arranges for SIGINT (C-g in Emacs on a text-mode frame) to be passed to Emacs and not give |