Re: fringe arrow conflict between compile and gud?

[Kim F. Storm]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's my take on this:
>
> In the beginning there was just one overlay-arrow-position shared between GUD
> and Edebug. Now there are more modes competing for it, there are conflicts.
> Compilation modes, as you describe uses it in two places and tries to get
> round the problem by making overlay-arrow-position a local-variable. I think
> this is the wrong way. Kim Storm created a variable 
> overlay-arrow-variable-list
> to allow multiple overlay arrows (see info). I have used this for buffers
> displaying assembler in gdb-ui.el (gdb-overlay-arrow-position).
>
Maybe GUD could use this method in the source buffer too, i.e. give up
using the default overlay arrow.

BTW, Gnus also uses the overlay arrow, and I've never seen problems
using Gnus and GUD at the same time.


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