Re: [RFA, doc RFA] New option set use-deprecated-index-sections

dje
2012-07-18T23:53:05Z

Jan Kratochvil writes:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:33:42 +0200, dje@google.com wrote:
> > + use "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'".
> [...]
> > +`-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\"' to gdb."),
>
> It is more Eli's decision but I would find it overquoted.
> (1) ` is deprecated by GNU Coding Standard in favor of '.
> (2) If user really passes "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'"
> to GDB it will not work:
> $ gdb "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'"
> gdb: unrecognized option '-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on''
>
> So IMO:
> > + use: -iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'
> [...]
> > +-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\" to gdb."),

One could apply the same reasoning to a lot of other places.
I'm happy to follow whatever rules there are,
I just require them to be applied consistently.

Maybe it should be phrased as
<-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\">
since when we say "Type <return> to continue"
we assume they know we're not asking them to type
< r e t u r n >. :-(