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@@ -445,10 +445,10 @@ nearly innumerable bug fixes and cleanups throughout @value{GDBN}.
The following people at the Hewlett-Packard Company contributed
support for the PA-RISC 2.0 architecture, HP-UX 10.20, 10.30, and 11.0
(narrow mode), HP's implementation of kernel threads, HP's aC@t{++}
-compiler, and the terminal user interface: Ben Krepp, Richard Title,
-John Bishop, Susan Macchia, Kathy Mann, Satish Pai, India Paul, Steve
-Rehrauer, and Elena Zannoni. Kim Haase provided HP-specific
-information in this manual.
+compiler, and the Text User Interface (nee Terminal User Interface):
+Ben Krepp, Richard Title, John Bishop, Susan Macchia, Kathy Mann,
+Satish Pai, India Paul, Steve Rehrauer, and Elena Zannoni. Kim Haase
+provided HP-specific information in this manual.
DJ Delorie ported @value{GDBN} to MS-DOS, for the DJGPP project.
Robert Hoehne made significant contributions to the DJGPP port.
@@ -1112,12 +1112,13 @@ Run using @var{device} for your program's standard input and output.
@c resolve the situation of these eventually
@item -tui
@cindex @code{--tui}
-Activate the Terminal User Interface when starting.
-The Terminal User Interface manages several text windows on the terminal,
-showing source, assembly, registers and @value{GDBN} command outputs
-(@pxref{TUI, ,@value{GDBN} Text User Interface}).
-Do not use this option if you run @value{GDBN} from Emacs
-(@pxref{Emacs, ,Using @value{GDBN} under @sc{gnu} Emacs}).
+Activate the @dfn{Text User Interface} when starting. The Text User
+Interface manages several text windows on the terminal, showing
+source, assembly, registers and @value{GDBN} command outputs
+(@pxref{TUI, ,@value{GDBN} Text User Interface}). Alternatively, the
+Text User Interface can be enabled by invoking the program
+@samp{gdbtui}. Do not use this option if you run @value{GDBN} from
+Emacs (@pxref{Emacs, ,Using @value{GDBN} under @sc{gnu} Emacs}).
@c @item -xdb
@c @cindex @code{--xdb}
@@ -13888,6 +13889,7 @@ interpreter-exec mi "-data-list-register-names"
@node TUI
@chapter @value{GDBN} Text User Interface
@cindex TUI
+@cindex Text User Interface
@menu
* TUI Overview:: TUI overview
@@ -13897,12 +13899,14 @@ interpreter-exec mi "-data-list-register-names"
* TUI Configuration:: TUI configuration variables
@end menu
-The @value{GDBN} Text User Interface, TUI in short,
-is a terminal interface which uses the @code{curses} library
-to show the source file, the assembly output, the program registers
-and @value{GDBN} commands in separate text windows.
-The TUI is available only when @value{GDBN} is configured
-with the @code{--enable-tui} configure option (@pxref{Configure Options}).
+The @value{GDBN} Text User Interface, TUI in short, is a terminal
+interface which uses the @code{curses} library to show the source
+file, the assembly output, the program registers and @value{GDBN}
+commands in separate text windows.
+
+The TUI is enabled by invoking @value{GDBN} using either
+@pindex gdbtui
+@samp{gdbtui} or @samp{gdb -tui}.
@node TUI Overview
@section TUI overview