[m-rev.] for review: source-linking for mdb

[Fergus Henderson]

On 29-Oct-2001, Mark Brown <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 29-Oct-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > What was wrong with the shell printing an error message that will end up
> > on our terminal?
> > 
> > If something goes wrong, the error message may well be helpful...
> 
> Yeah, you're probably right.  It just seemed a bit messy having somebody
> else's error message printed.  I can undo that part in the relative diff
> I just posted, if you like.
> 
> Alternatively, perhaps a neater way would be to allow a '-v' (or
> '--verbose') option to the source window command, which prints out each
> sh command before it is executed, and also prints out any error messages.
> That way, the error messages would make more sense.  Would you prefer
> this?

Either way would be OK with me.

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