From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17927 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2007 12:03:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 17916 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Apr 2007 12:03:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:03:33 +0100 Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (59.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.59]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765C83D8F0E; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:03:30 +1200 (NZST) Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 39DE4627ED; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:01:04 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17954.5119.491026.813959@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:09:00 -0000 To: Vladimir Prus Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Ping: frozen variable objects In-Reply-To: <200704151546.09530.vladimir@codesourcery.com> References: <200703251351.43195.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200704151431.58128.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <17954.3880.907830.606565@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200704151546.09530.vladimir@codesourcery.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.97.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 > > It does to me because the first refers to the destination (the entry for > > -var-update), while the second is just the name of the anchor which is not > > visible to the reader. > > It is visible to the reader -- both in printed documented and in info (as > viewed by 'info' command). The *anchor* isn't visible. Well I can't see it. > > Info in Emacs reflects the importance of the first > > argument by just displaying: > > > > (*note -var-update.) > > > > Currently Emacs displays: > > > > (*note -var-update-fields.) > > > > but there is no such (visible) location. > > Should we really cater to the way Emacs displays something? Yes. GDB and Emacs are both part of the GNU Project, and it makes sense to integrate tools, in any case. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob