From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118031 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2017 10:18:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 118017 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jan 2017 10:18:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:sk:b65e1de, H*MI:sk:b65e1de, H*f:sk:b65e1de, policy X-HELO: smtp.eu.adacore.com Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO smtp.eu.adacore.com) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:18:56 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C0C83D91; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:18:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.eu.adacore.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IEBcrpY4-e16; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:18:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from chelles.act-europe.fr (chelles.act-europe.fr [10.10.0.160]) by smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005E383D0C; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:18:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by chelles.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 560) id EF04F1EA0067; Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:18:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:18:00 -0000 From: Jerome Guitton To: Pedro Alves Cc: Yao Qi , Simon Marchi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] candidates for ambiguous command in upper case Message-ID: <20170112101854.GL27546@adacore.com> References: <1484058324-5368-1-git-send-email-guitton@adacore.com> <20170110150731.GH9518@E107787-LIN> <20170110151944.GD27546@adacore.com> <2c7e674b-e827-f433-cbaf-a3d1a20cba80@redhat.com> <20170111172550.GL9518@E107787-LIN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00206.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com): > I can only guess on original motivation -- maybe to make GDB usable > with uppercase-only terminals? Those were common at some point in > the past. I think Linux's terminal subsystem might still have > support for those. But then symbol searching was not case-insensitive, > ("set case-sensitive off" support was only added much later), so I > can't quite imagine how that'd be much usable. I'm not sure of the original motivation; but I guess that if it has been there for thirty years it is now considered as the standard interface by a few users. In any case, even if we decide to change that, consistency would be good, at least for CLI; the same policy for casing should apply in all cases of completion. Documenting it in the user manual would be good indeed; I'm not sure where the proper place would be though.