[m-dev.] Suggestions for mdb

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Aug-2000, Mark Anthony BROWN <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Ralph Becket writes:
> > I have a few ideas for simple improvements to the debugger.
> > 
> ...
> 
> > 2b. Corollary: it would be nice to be able to set browser
> > variables in the .mdbrc file.
> 
> One way we could support this is to call the browser with a dummy term
> (e.g. unit) when the 'browse' command is given no arguments.  That way
> you could put something like the following in your .mdbrc:
> 
> 	browse
> 	set format pretty
> 	set depth 5
> 	 ...
> 	quit
> 
> If folks think this is a good idea, then I'm happy to go ahead and
> implement it.

It's not ideal, but IMHO it's certainly an improvement on the current
status quo, so if this is easy to implement then I'd say go ahead and do it.

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