At 10:20 AM 1/6/00 -0600, Rich Johns wrote:
>I love this thing so don't take the following as a complaint, but rather
>as feedback
>that might be useful to the inmplementors:
>
>I just had an experience that was a little bit frustrating.
>
>I did a show threads command which changed the bottom pane(debug out)
>into the threads buffer. No problem. I looked at the threads and that
>was
>all nice. Then I wanted to do an operation that output to the debug out
>buffer. For example I did a display local variables. I expected the
>debug out buffer to replace the threads buffer in the bottom pane. It
>didn't, which
>is ok, no great hardship, I could always do a C-x b and get it back,
>which
>works fine if it happens to be the next buffer in the ring. It wasn't so
>then
>I had to do a C-x C-b which displayed in the source window, I then
>selected
>the debug out buffer and it was displayed in the wrong pane. So now
>things
>are pretty out of wack. I don't have my source buffer, etc. IOW, it took
>
>some time out of my workflow to get things back to where I needed them.
>
>If I could have done one of the following, things would have been
>smooth:
>
>When a display blah is done, and the bottom pane is occupied by the
>*threads* pane
>or whatever other buffer might be there, put the debug out buffer back
>in the bottom
>pane.
>
Hi Rich,
I agree that window management needs to be improved. I have some ideas on
this score but wanted to wait until I got some further experience and
feedback before proceeding further in this area. So I welcome your
suggestions. In the meantime, you can use the JDEBug->Processes->Set Target
Process to restore the window configuration to the "normal" tri-pane
configuration
Source
-----------------
Process CLI
-----------------
Debugger Output
You can use this command even if you have only one process running.
Also please note the Processes->Remove Dead Processes command. This command
deletes buffers for processes that have terminated, thus eliminating the
proliferation of buffers that can occur when you repeatedly debug processes
in a single Emacs session.
- Paul
