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Re: [RFA 1/2] minor Python doc updates
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:28:57 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA 1/2] minor Python doc updates
- References: <87d2th9kqq dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <83ehdxt319 dot fsf at gnu dot org> <87ppxd77ie dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:10:01 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> +You can get quick online help for @value{GDBN}'s Python API by issuing
> >> +the command @w{@kbd{python help (gdb)}}.
>
> Eli> This dumps about 20 screen-fulls (each screen 57 lines) on my system.
> Eli> Shouldn't this be paginated? This part:
>
> >> +At startup, @value{GDBN} overrides Python's @code{sys.stdout} and
> >> +@code{sys.stderr} to print using @value{GDBN}'s output-paging streams.
>
> Eli> seems to imply it should, but it doesn't here (MS-Windows), at least
> Eli> not with GDB 7.6 and Python 2.6.6.
>
> It definitely works for me using Python 2.7.
> I don't know what the problem could be.
Could be some Windows specific problem, perhaps. Can someone please
try that on Windows? If others don't see that on Windows, I guess
it's some local issue on my box.