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Chris Dean <ctdean@cogit.com> writes:

> What is the current state of the XEmacs debugger front ends?

I have no special plans other than the eventual integration of jwz's
gdb-highlight.el.

> I have had to abandon gdb (and my beloved gdbsrc mode) and am trying
> to use dbx.

> Are there any plans to merge these?

None that I'm aware of.

> I like gdb.el better than the gdb in gud.el, and dbx not at all.  If
> I wanted to make a version of the dbx front end that was friendlier
> than gud-dbx, where would I start?

Look at anything jwz has done in this area.
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