From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 111435 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2017 21:04:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 111330 invoked by uid 89); 4 Aug 2017 21:04:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HX-Greylist:AUTH, HX-Greylist:succeeded, HX-Greylist:SMTP X-HELO: mail.baldwin.cx Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (HELO mail.baldwin.cx) (96.47.65.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:04:22 +0000 Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (c-73-231-226-104.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.231.226.104]) by mail.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0CFBE10AF07; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:04:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Simon Marchi , Ruslan Kabatsayev Subject: Re: [PING][PATCH] Add shortcuts for "nexti" and "stepi" commands in Single-Key mode Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: <11715373.GM5IrkgxOV@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (FreeBSD/11.1-STABLE; KDE/4.14.30; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <2085ccb4878f1acccefb8aa2312f7c34@polymtl.ca> References: <1499926070-13827-1-git-send-email-b7.10110111@gmail.com> <2085ccb4878f1acccefb8aa2312f7c34@polymtl.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 On Friday, August 04, 2017 03:29:01 PM Simon Marchi wrote: > On 2017-08-04 07:48, Ruslan Kabatsayev wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After using these shortcuts for some time I found that they are still > > not best: one has to hold Shift in order to continuously step in > > instruction mode. Would it be better to e.g. replace N->m, S->z? I > > think we can basically use any non-occupied shortcuts here, they just > > should be convenient, not necessarily be associated with "long" > > version of the commands. > > > > Regards, > > Ruslan > > Ok, I understand how having to hold shift may not be so practical. > > It would be nice if there was a pattern that made it easy to > remember/deduce the keys for stepi/nexti from the keys for step/next, > which are more obvious. For example, if we used 'a' for stepi and 'b' > for nexti, the "instruction" versions of the keys would both be at the > left of their "non-instruction" counterpart. That's with a > QWERTY-centric view though, maybe it doesn't make sense with other > layouts. I agree it should be something deducible like a/b or d/m. -- John Baldwin