Re: Another proposal for frontends and queries.

Pedro Alves
2009-09-16T13:25:44Z

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 14:06:00, Hui Zhu wrote:
> > Having that "[n]" seems of less value than getting PRecord to work with
> > Frontends, no?
>
> I cannot agree with it.

Please be clear on _why_ and _what_ you cannot agree with.

The point we're making, is that from the user's perpective, this:

foofooo? (y or n) <enter>
Please answer y or n.
foofooo? (y or n) n <enter>
<action cancelled>

doesn't look any worse than:

foofooo? (y or [n]) <enter>
<action cancelled>

GDB uses 'query' (defaulting to yes), in other desctructive
situations, such as the old:

(gdb) quit
The program is running. Quit anyway (and kill it)? (y or n)

or the old:

(gdb) run
The program being debugged has been started already.
Start it from the beginning? (y or n)

How is precord different?

We very seriously need a GDB HIG.

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Pedro Alves