On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
All Richard was saying that a debugger front-end is an important part of an IDE.
Eli,
With all due respect, while you may interpret Richard's words in that manner, that is not what he wrote. I quoted at the top of my posting Richard's very first sentence that started this extended thread. Here it is again in its entirety.:
> Emacs with GUD is an IDE.
Given the amount of influence Richard will exert over efforts to fashion Emacs into something approximating a modern IDE I believe it is reasonable to wonder how familiar he is (or is willing to become) with such technologies. When we had the long thread some while back about supporting completion and refactoring I got the sense that Richard was unfamiliar with the functionality and user experience of modern IDEs. IIRC he committed to seeking some outside guidance which might have included becoming more familiar with the current state of typical IDEs. If that has yet to happen I wonder how John's anticipated f2f discussion with Richard will go.