From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 110888 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2019 19:22:25 -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 110879 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2019 19:22:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-11.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_1,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=online, letter X-HELO: mailsec106.isp.belgacom.be Received: from mailsec106.isp.belgacom.be (HELO mailsec106.isp.belgacom.be) (195.238.20.102) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:22:24 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=skynet.be; i=@skynet.be; q=dns/txt; s=securemail; t=1555183344; x=1586719344; h=message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=crufQZP0gym3jvG0kBPmCLrN7wzqtnJG01gSQFHbFPI=; b=OxxXaUtHMB8PiLAp+TzhzV3mqn2eWBbPINhTSVTxv1HyaXckMJ7GXtap eYq69tO64aibjD9vtlMSKVR8tqnsAQ==; Received: from 212.135-131-109.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (HELO md) ([109.131.135.212]) by relay.skynet.be with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Apr 2019 21:22:22 +0200 Message-ID: <1555183342.1446.21.camel@skynet.be> Subject: Re: [RFA 3/3] NEWS and documentation for / (slash) command. From: Philippe Waroquiers To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83lg0dk9gf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190413190016.11970-1-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> <20190413190016.11970-4-philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> <83lg0dk9gf.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-04/txt/msg00247.txt.bz2 Thanks for the review and the (as usual) good suggestions/comments. I will handle them for the next version. Note that (if not done yet), it might be good to check the on-line 'help /' doc which is in the top.c file (see [RFA 1/3]). Thanks Philippe On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 22:10 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Philippe Waroquiers > > Cc: Philippe Waroquiers > > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 21:00:16 +0200 > > > > +* New commands > > + > > +/SETTING... COMMAND > > + The / command temporarily changes some settings according to SETTING > > + to run COMMAND. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I'd say "for the duration of COMMAND" instead. > > > +@cindex Settings > > +@cindex Temporarily change settings > > By convention, index entries are not capitalized, to avoid problems > with sorting them alphabetically (which produces locale-dependent > results). > > > +The following table gives the list of settings that the @code{/} command > > +can temporarily change. The first column gives the letter sequence > > +identifying the setting corresponding to the command in the second column. > > +The third column gives the type of the setting, and list the different > > +possible values for the enumeration settings. Note that the below table > > +is produced by the @code{help /} command. > > + > > +@smallexample > > +@c In the 'doc' build directory, the following can be produced by: > > +@c ../../gdb/gdb -q --nx -ex 'set width 80' -ex 'set height 0' -ex 'help /' -ex quit | > > +@c sed -e '1,/The temporarily changeable settings are:/d' -e ':a;s/^\( *\) /@\1/;ta' -e 's/^/@exdent /' > > +@c Maybe this could/should be automated by the doc Makefile ? > > +@exdent /Be set backtrace past-entry Boolean on|off > > +@exdent /Bl set backtrace limit Unsigned integer (0 means unlimited) > > Please rewrite this as a @multitable, so that it looks good in all > formats. > > Thanks.