Re: `gud-common-init'

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > Actually I tried to debug `etags' with command line
>  >
>  >    etags --language none --regex '/^Pattern[ \t]+[a-zA-Z0-9]+/' ...
>  >
>  > I agree it's not something you need every day, but it came out as a big
>  > surprise for me when I saw how this command line was passed to `etags'.
>
> M-x gdb
>
> Run gdb (like this): gdb etags
>
> (gdb) r --language none --regex '/^Pattern[ \t]+[a-zA-Z0-9]+/' ...
>
> Does this work for you?

Wow, I managed to use GDB for all this time without knowing this...
Thanks for the hint.

The only inconvenience is that it is more difficult to restart
debugging session with the very same arguments after you quit GDB,
but I agree it's way to minor a problem to bother.

Paul