Re: gdb-ui almosts works in NT

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:04:00 +0100
> 
> The output from the inferior could be sent directly to the input/output buffer
> but the author of this part of the code from gdba.el (Tom Lord?) used cat
> because:
> 
> ;; We want to use comint because it has various nifty and familiar
> ;; features.  We don't need a process, but comint wants one, so create
> ;; a dummy one.

I don't understand why is this important; perhaps someone else does.

> I downloaded Emacs for NT and MinGW for the first time today and this didn't
> seem to be just a problem with gdb-ui.el. `M-x gdb' from gud.el also sent the
> output from the inferior to its own DOS window. Even if `gdb mytest' is run in
> a DOS window (no Emacs) then the inferior outputs to its own DOS window and
> does not seem able to share the window with gdb like in GNU/Linux.

Yes, I suspected that much.  Thanks for verifying.