Fw: displaying variables in gdb mode

[David Kastrup]

Markus.Grunwald at pruftechnik.com writes:

> Stephen Turnbull directed my request to this mailing list:
>
>> >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Grunwald <Markus.Grunwald at pruftechnik.com> 
> writes:
>> 
>>     Markus> after a few problems, I got very much used to debug my
>>     Markus> code with M-x gdb in xemacs. It's just the fastest way to
>>     Markus> check a few things. But I am missing one feature that
>>     Markus> seems to exist in emacs ( no "x" ) gdb mode: Can I move
>>     Markus> the mouse over a variable and get its content displayed as
>>     Markus> "balloon help" or anything similar ? I don't want to
>>     Markus> always type "print VariableBlaBla" ...
>> 
>> Recent gdb-mode uses functionality and APIs that are very different in
>> GNU Emacs from XEmacs.  We're working on the port (specifically Jerry
>> James is).  Please bring this up on xemacs-beta at xemacs.org.
>
> Well, it took some time, but now I did :)

It would first require a tolerably working balloon help.

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