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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] use filename_completer for add_setshow_optional_filename_cmd
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080704061700.GB18019@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c8dbc2$b1d7afe0$15870fa0$@u-strasbg.fr>

> There are currently only three adffected commands:
> 
> "set debug-file-directory"
> "set args"
> "set solib-search-path"
> 
> Only the second one might be questionable, but I also find that it
> is reasonable to have filename completion for "set args" as this is
> now done on most shells.

I also agree that this is more useful than completing on symbols.

> 2008-07-01  Pierre Muller  <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
> 
> 	cli/cli-decode.c (add_setshow_optional_filename_cmd): Set
> 	completer for set to filename_completer.

This change makes sense. Can you submit a NEWS entry describing the
new completion policy? The code update itself is approved.

Thank you,
-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 21:38 Pierre Muller
2008-07-01 22:03 ` Pedro Alves
2008-07-04  6:17 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-07-04 14:56   ` Pierre Muller
2008-07-04 18:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-04 22:56   ` Pierre Muller
2008-07-04 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii

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