Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

Vladimir Prus
2006-05-12T08:14:50Z

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:17:30 -0400
>> From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
>>
>> I hope this looks correct. Please let me know otherwise. I think it's
>> an improvement over what is there now, and could save others valuable
>> research time.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here, exactly.
> Explaining why we did something in the past does not belong in the
> manual (except maybe in a footnote, if it is _very_ important to
> mention history).
>
> Perhaps I wasn't following the thread closely enough, so I missed
> something important. Can you state what information is missing from
> the current text in this section? You say above that the changes
> ``could save others valuable research time''--what did you need to
> research, and why, and what did you find that wasn't described in the
> manual?

I'd agree with Eli that the proposed text sounds a bit like history, but it
documents some important points:

- That you can type CLI commands into MI, and this is not longer considered
to work just by accident
- That typing CLI command has the same effect as -interpreter-exec console
- That CLI command don't produce async notifications

Those points are important to have documented, IMO.

- Volodya