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To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: ZLE widget to run gdb on command line
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Chris Johnson wrote:
> Hi.  I just thought I'd share a widget that I find helpful.  Invoking
> gdb is something I need to do a lot lately, it seems, and I often think
> I can pass the program's arguments as arguments to gdb:
> 
>    gdb myprog arg1 arg2 arg3
> 
> But gdb doesn't accept this because it expects other unnamed arguments.
> Treating the whole command as a single argument to gdb also fails:
> 
>    gdb "myprog arg1 arg2 arg3"
> 

gdb --args myprog arg1 arg2 arg3
works on my version of gdb, at least.