Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] correction

[Eric L. <eri...@gm...>]

Hi Uwe,

I'm not very familiar with those APIs.  Do all the icons auto clean up 
when the GUD process goes away?


If so, it seems like a fine thing to include to me.

Eric

On 4/12/19 12:10 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>> "EL" == Eric Ludlam <eri...@gm...> writes:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks for you reply.
>
>     > Hi Uwe,
>     > Looks like you were having some fun with the GUD API. :)
>
>     > The type of snippets you forwarded look like they could work, though I
>     > didn't try them.  My assumption was that if users started using a
>     > feature like you describe, and and typed:
>
>     > dbclear all
>
>     > or
>
>     > dbstop in foo
>
>     > and icons didn't appear/disappear correctly then they would send bug
>     > reports.  As long as it's clear that you have to use the EMACS
>     > commands to set/remove breakpoints, then maybe that's ok.
>
> Right point taken.
>
> To defend myself: For ages I used Xemacs, whose matlab support was never
> at pair with GNU emacs, so I used the matlab-shell debugging. When I
> switched finally to GNU emacs, I could only enjoy the nice navigation
> while debugging for a short while, since the Matlab API was dropped
> basically a short while after I switched. (in 2011A or B, right?).
>
> So I, again, switched to the debugging from the command line, which is
> functional but not very convenient. Now thanks to Odd Andersen, Emacs
> navigation, in bit simplified form, during debugging is back and I would
> like to use Emacs and not the matlab-shell, so it simply did not occur
> to me that people could run into the problem you mentioned. So you are
> right: I should adapt the documentation accordingly.
>
> So what do you say: shall I do that and provide a patch to the list, to
> see what others say? (So far you are the only one who gave some
> feedback.
>
>     > If you're feeling adventurous, a matlab script in matlab-emacs/toolbox
>     > that uses 'dbstatus' and prints out a formatted list of breakpoints
>     > could be used to 'fix up' the breakpoint icons.  Shadows scripts for
>     > dbclear and dbstop that call said script could probably get something
>     > kindof hacky up and running for keeping icons up to date.  This would
>     > require some new output filter/parsing to get going.  Could be a fun
>     > project.
>
> Right, that sounds like a good idea. However till the end of May I will
> be busy debugging a lot of students programs so I might not find the
> time to do it. Any other takers?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Uwe