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From: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, marc.khouzam@ericsson.com,
		gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util.c + doc [was Re: [RFC] Queries and frontends]
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19064.2410.863604.37792@totara.tehura.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zlamsw22.fsf@gnu.org>

 > "value of `show confirm' command" sounds awkward (a command cannot
 > have a value).  Can you suggest a better wording?

Perhaps it's enough to say that they are disabled and point to the existing
description.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


Index: gdb.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.613
diff -c -p -r1.613 gdb.texinfo
*** gdb.texinfo	3 Aug 2009 12:39:00 -0000	1.613
--- gdb.texinfo	4 Aug 2009 10:08:55 -0000
*************** Displays how many symbol complaints @val
*** 17972,17977 ****
--- 17972,17978 ----
  
  @end table
  
+ @anchor{confirmation requests}
  By default, @value{GDBN} is cautious, and asks what sometimes seems to be a
  lot of stupid questions to confirm certain commands.  For example, if
  you try to run a program which is already running:
*************** The server prefix does not affect the re
*** 25664,25669 ****
--- 25665,25672 ----
  history; to print a value without recording it into the value history,
  use the @code{output} command instead of the @code{print} command.
  
+ It also disables confirmation requests (@pxref{confirmation requests}).
+ 
  @node Prompting
  @section Annotation for @value{GDBN} Input
  


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]           ` <m3r5vztcpw.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
2009-07-30  0:41             ` Nick Roberts
2009-07-30  0:42               ` Marc Khouzam
2009-07-30  7:24                 ` Nick Roberts
2009-07-30 16:02                   ` Marc Khouzam
2009-07-30  6:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-04 10:12                 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2009-08-04 17:51                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-06  5:21                     ` Nick Roberts
2009-08-06  8:24                       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-06 18:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-04 16:32               ` [PATCH] util.c + doc Tom Tromey

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