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diff --git a/lisp/gud.el b/lisp/gud.el index 2953834b8ff..c2e99948954 100644 --- a/lisp/gud.el +++ b/lisp/gud.el @@ -1545,7 +1545,15 @@ and source-file directory for your debugger." ;; List of Java source file directories. (defvar gud-jdb-directories (list ".") "*A list of directories that gud jdb should search for source code. -The file names should be absolute, or relative to the current directory.") +The file names should be absolute, or relative to the current +directory. + +The set of .java files residing in the directories listed are +syntactically analyzed to determine the classes they define and the +packages in which these classes belong. In this way gud jdb maps the +package-qualified class names output by the jdb debugger to the source +file from which the class originated. This allows gud mode to keep +the source code display in sync with the debugging session.") ;; List of the java source files for this debugging session. (defvar gud-jdb-source-files nil) |