bug#7575: gdb command history saving

[Pete Beardmore]

>  Glen Morris wrote:
>
> > Glen Morris wrote:
> >
> > You could add something like the following to gdb-mode-hook:
> >
> >   (setq comint-input-ring-file-name "~/.gdbhist")
> >   (comint-read-input-ring t)
> >
> > shell-mode tries to do this by default; perhaps gdb-mode should do
> > similar.
>
> I've added this to M-x gdb.

Hi, sorry for the late come back and thank you for the comments. Could  
i ask whether you tested a w32 emacs version evoked from a MinGW/Msys  
bash prompt? My GNU/Linux emacs gdb history works out of the box so i  
still think this is a bug, possibly to do with file encodings?!

As a workaround, i started with the gdb-mode-hook you provided (thank  
you) and added a few more comint settings..

(add-hook 'gdb-mode-hook '(lambda()
                        (setq comint-input-ring-file-name "~/.gdbhist")
                        (comint-read-input-ring t)
                        (setq comint-input-ring-size 1000)
                        (setq comint-input-ignoredups t)
                  ))

..but obviously this wouldn't solve the problem of not writing the  
commands back to the file after the session.

(add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'comint-write-input-ring)

..took care of the buffer being killed, but I also defined this advice  
to take care of quitting..

(defadvice gdb-send-item (before gdb-save-history first nil activate)
  "write input ring on quit"
  (if (equal (type-of item) 'string) ; avoid problems with some  
horrible, seemingly unprintable structures sent to this function..
    (if (string-match "^q\\(u\\|ui\\|uit\\)?$" item)
       (progn (comint-write-input-ring)
      (message "history file '%s' written" comint-input-ring-file-name)))))

Thanks,
Pete