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RFC: moving Emacs code from zshdb?

2010-10-31
2012-12-10
  • Rocky Bernstein

    Rocky Bernstein - 2010-10-31

    I'd like to get your comments on the future command name to invoke zshdb from inside GNU/Emacs.

    Many of the debuggers have code for running inside in Emacs. A lot of this code is cut and paste with GNU Emacs code from other debuggers I've written.

    So a little while ago I started writing the Emacs code from scratch. In the next zshdb release, I plan to remove the Emacs code from zshdb, since the rewritten code will be much better. In most aspects, it is already better right now.

    The question I have is whether to keep the top-level Emacs command called zshdb or change it to something else like dbgr-zshdb. (The Emacs package is called _dbgr_. On the plus side, zshdb is shorter. On the minus side there is the potential for confusion with the old Emacs code.

    Thoughts?

     
  • Rocky Bernstein

    Rocky Bernstein - 2010-11-04

    What I've decided to do for now is change the names to the more explicit name, e.g. dbgr-zshdb, dbgr-trepan and alias a shorter name to the longer one. So the longer one.

    The only exception is gdb which does not have the alias. That is you have to use dbgr-gdb. It is an exception because I feel that gdb as an Emacs command is already to widely used.

     

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