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Why does KDevelop refuse to have a terminal view?
by littlenoodles on Thursday 10/Apr/2008, @11:18

This may not be true any more, but I read at one point that KDevelop was philosophically opposed to putting in one of those command/terminal windows that lots of unix IDE's have.

I can understand why you wouldn't want to force it, but having access to the command prompt of the underlying debugger is a really powerful thing. If it's not too hard to have that access available on an optional basis, why leave it out?

At my company, we debug with dbx on AIX at the command line. It stinks, but there's one really powerful feature that I use all the time. It's the ability to call code from a breakpoint. I go so far as to add functions to my libraries for printing out nicely-formatted complex data types just so they can be called from inside a dbx session.

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Re: Why does KDevelop refuse to have a terminal view?
by hmmm on Thursday 10/Apr/2008, @11:40

You are mistaken. kdevelop has a terminal view -- specifically a konsole kpart view.

I use it every day.

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Re: Why does KDevelop refuse to have a terminal vi
by teatime on Tuesday 15/Apr/2008, @02:32

Yes, and KDevelop3 has had an integrated shell for the last 5 years.. which makes the OP's point a bit strange. I don't remember about KDevelop2.

Maybe it's referring specifically to the integrated debugger? IIRC, the cli to gdb has been there for years as well.

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Re: Why does KDevelop refuse to have a terminal vi
by harryF on Thursday 10/Apr/2008, @11:50

on the contrary, we love command interfaces. We also prefer the amount of info a UI can display at a time, and the convenience to move views + close them when not needed. Both together is a killer combination.

My condolences on having to use dbx on AIX, I had to do that once and reverted to printf() :)

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