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Re: source listing change


Chris,

 > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:04:03PM -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
 > >Chris Faylor wrote:
 > >> Yes!  Please!
 > >> 
 > >> I think that this has been discussed in the past.  Do we really need to
 > >> make this a separate option to list?
 > >> 
 > >
 > >Honestly, I didn't do any research to see if there was any discussion. 
 > >Anyone remember?  I'd like to see it as the default.  It's a great
 > >visual clue.
 > 
 > I vaguely recall that people were concerned that changing this may cause
 > problems for things like ddd, insight, emacs or anything else which
 > interprets output from gdb.
 > 

This would not cause insight any problems, and I doubt that emacs or ddd get
their file listings from running "list" over the pipe to gdb.  That
would be an inordinantly slow way to do it, given that you can get gdb
to tell you where the file is.

Jim

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