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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 4da4e55..cc2391b 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -20040,10 +20040,14 @@ Displays the current state of XML debugging messages. @table @code @kindex set interactive-mode @item set interactive-mode -If @code{on}, forces @value{GDBN} to operate interactively. -If @code{off}, forces @value{GDBN} to operate non-interactively, -If @code{auto} (the default), @value{GDBN} guesses which mode to use, -based on whether the debugger was started in a terminal or not. +If @code{on}, forces @value{GDBN} to assume that GDB was started +in a terminal. In practice, this means that @value{GDBN} should wait +for the user to answer queries generated by commands entered at +the command prompt. If @code{off}, forces @value{GDBN} to operate +in the opposite mode, and it uses the default answers to all queries. +If @code{auto} (the default), @value{GDBN} tries to determine whether +its standard input is a terminal, and works in interactive-mode if it +is, non-interactively otherwise. In the vast majority of cases, the debugger should be able to guess correctly which mode should be used. But this setting can be useful |