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Re: usability: exiting from GDB

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: John Pye <john dot pye at anu dot edu dot au>
Cc: Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:04:52 -0800
Subject: Re: usability: exiting from GDB
References: <456A79B5.2020505@anu.edu.au> <456AFA30.80508@st.com> <456CFDF8.10408@anu.edu.au>

> I think that the 'Quit' message is great. But instead of *suggesting*,
> it should ask for confirmation: "Ctrl-C pressed from GDB console. Do you
> want to exit? (y or n)". Then this confirmation could be turned off
> somewhere in the configuration settings.

I must say, as a user, this behavior would sure surprise me. I don't
understand what the problem is with hitting 'q' followed by Enter.
When you think about it, the suggestion above makes it even longer
than it already is.

-- 
Joel

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