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Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default


On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:28:29 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I think gdb has touted this -- rightly -- as a feature.  And, if
> anything, I think we've gone even more in this direction in recent
> years, what with pretty-printers and Python auto-loading.  Furthermore,
> I think this is a good trend in general; applications are getting more
> complex, and this provides an important way to adapt the debugger to
> them.

In such case the `canned sequences of commands' should be bound to the binary,
not to the directory.  One (me) runs GDB for so many different executablse
while staying in src/gdb/ .


Thanks,
Jan


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