GNU bug report logs - #18113
Ambiguity in etc/DEBUG

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Ambiguity in etc/DEBUG
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:11:54 +0000

Hi, Emacs.

In etc/DEBUG is written:

    When you debug Emacs with GDB, you should start it in the directory
    where the executable was made (the 'src' directory in the Emacs source
    tree).  That directory has a .gdbinit file that defines various
    "user-defined" commands for debugging Emacs.

It is unclear to me whether the "it" that should be starting in src is
Emacs or gdb itself.  I think that "it" should be replaced by either
"Emacs" or "GDB".

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 18113-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18113: Ambiguity in etc/DEBUG
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:41:54 +0300

> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:11:54 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> Hi, Emacs.
> 
> In etc/DEBUG is written:
> 
>     When you debug Emacs with GDB, you should start it in the directory
>     where the executable was made (the 'src' directory in the Emacs source
>     tree).  That directory has a .gdbinit file that defines various
>     "user-defined" commands for debugging Emacs.
> 
> It is unclear to me whether the "it" that should be starting in src is
> Emacs or gdb itself.  I think that "it" should be replaced by either
> "Emacs" or "GDB".

Thanks, fixed.
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