Change the default value of gdb-mi-decode-strings to t (bug#44173)

This is likely to be a more commonly wanted default value today.

* lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el (gdb-mi-decode-strings): Change default.
* doc/emacs/building.texi (Source Buffers): Update manual.
* etc/NEWS: Announce.

diff --git a/doc/emacs/building.texi b/doc/emacs/building.texi
index 3e09f243226bd615a7306b7c59931743365a2393..91c749aa2d5f50f1a217358f42534fc5fb6064df 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/building.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/building.texi
@@ -1092,13 +1092,12 @@ code that has already executed, in order to examine its execution in
 more detail.
 
 @vindex gdb-mi-decode-strings
-  If the file names of the source files are shown with octal escapes,
-set the variable @code{gdb-mi-decode-strings} to the appropriate
-coding-system, most probably @code{utf-8}.  (This is @code{nil} by
-default because GDB may emit octal escapes in situations where
-decoding is undesirable, and also because the program being debugged
-might use an encoding different from the one used to encode non-ASCII
-file names on your system.)
+  By default, source file names and non-ASCII strings in the program
+being debugged are decoded using the default coding-system.  If you
+prefer a different decoding, perhaps because the program being
+debugged uses a different character encoding, set the variable
+@code{gdb-mi-decode-strings} to the appropriate coding-system, or to
+@code{nil} to leave non-ASCII characters as undecoded octal escapes.
 
 @node Breakpoints Buffer
 @subsubsection Breakpoints Buffer

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 06a2864b7e3686611105190899182a048d0277fa..8b5acafe3190a63c4502b517b04b475294b9cf0b 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -855,6 +855,11 @@ Now GDB only uses one source window to display source file by default.
 Customize 'gdb-max-source-window-count' to use more than one window.
 Control source file display by 'gdb-display-source-buffer-action'.
 
++++
+*** The default value of gdb-mi-decode-strings is now t.
+This means that the default coding-system is now used to decode strings
+and source file names from GDB.
+
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diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el
index 4bebf88d356f2823544f46aa6b6eb4f8bca4e94a..6e9b6830a012997796fa0783747f5a2abf1296c5 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el
@@ -2455,7 +2455,7 @@ the end of the current result or async record is reached."
 ;; files, values of string variables in the inferior, etc., are all
 ;; encoded in the same encoding.
 
-(defcustom gdb-mi-decode-strings nil
+(defcustom gdb-mi-decode-strings t
   "When non-nil, decode octal escapes in GDB output into non-ASCII text.
 
 If the value is a coding-system, use that coding-system to decode