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Re: A few small changes for 3.1 (Edit and gdb)

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From: Tim Pugh
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:37
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silbar@cantina.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar) writes:

>In article <lj6sbkINNhg9@news.bbn.com> aking@BBN.COM (Allen King) writes:
>> 
>>    Here are a few little nuisances I've found with 3.0 which maybe
>> NeXT could clean up before 3.1 comes out. Perhaps others have found
>> them too, perhaps not.  Other's may want to add to the list too. I'd
>> hate to have a new release come out without them, just because NeXT
>> didn't think of them and nobody thought to mention them, especially if
>> they are easy ;-).
>>    [munch on a list of nuisances and good suggestions]

>One thing about the Edit/gdb combination that annoys me is that I like,  
>while stepping thru code, to jump about and print out various things, so  
>see what happened in a given step.  But then I often lose track of where  
>the program actually is.  It would be nice if Edit's cursor returned to  
>the next line to be processed.

>   Dick Silbar

One addition that should be both easy to make and quite useful is to follow
the example set by the Stuart terminal emulator by adding an "extent" option
to the print pannel.  This allows one to print: all, selection, visible.
I have found this to be extremely useful.

	Tim Pugh
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