From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27193 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2005 03:46:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27182 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2005 03:46:51 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:46:51 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.51) id 1DkwCQ-0006Dv-CL for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:46:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] MI error messages Message-ID: <20050622034650.GA23830@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <17078.19977.660644.9978@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050620135108.GA29453@nevyn.them.org> <17079.14386.484824.134375@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17079.57494.321274.96102@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17080.35377.519988.619664@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <4B2E0CF3-987A-41E8-A2B3-0ADD6955DAF7@apple.com> <20050622033214.GA22609@nevyn.them.org> <11222BEA-D272-4170-B4FD-885E184D1065@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <11222BEA-D272-4170-B4FD-885E184D1065@apple.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00345.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:41:26PM -0700, Jason Molenda wrote: > >I think it makes plenty > >of sense to update error handling to just show the ^error, not &"..." > >also - though that is an incompatible change and would need some > >wider testing. >=20 > Agreed. Honestly I don't know if there are any deployed GUIs that=20=20 > use MI except for Xcode -- I hear Eclipse does -- but I can imagine a=20= =20 Yes, it does - more or less. I imagine there are a few others by now. > (poor) implementation dropping the ^error message text on the floor=20=20 > and assuming that the user will see the error message in the gdb =05=12I/= =20 > O window. Exactly; that's what I'm worried about. Maybe not worth worrying about. --=20 Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC