From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45455 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2017 13:29:10 -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 45440 invoked by uid 89); 4 Aug 2017 13:29:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=counterpart X-HELO: smtp.polymtl.ca Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca (HELO smtp.polymtl.ca) (132.207.4.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:29:08 +0000 Received: from simark.ca (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.polymtl.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id v74DT2qt021447 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:29:07 -0400 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6839F1EA01; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:29:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from simark.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045381E5AF; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:29:02 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:29:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi To: Ruslan Kabatsayev Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PING][PATCH] Add shortcuts for "nexti" and "stepi" commands in Single-Key mode In-Reply-To: References: <1499926070-13827-1-git-send-email-b7.10110111@gmail.com> <1be450ee-ea96-76a4-dbf9-81f15b2d4234@gmail.com> <7ee96675bc6f2307642fb638a9b65839@polymtl.ca> Message-ID: <2085ccb4878f1acccefb8aa2312f7c34@polymtl.ca> X-Sender: simon.marchi@polymtl.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.0 X-Poly-FromMTA: (simark.ca [158.69.221.121]) at Fri, 4 Aug 2017 13:29:02 +0000 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On 2017-08-04 07:48, Ruslan Kabatsayev wrote: > Hello, > > After using these shortcuts for some time I found that they are still > not best: one has to hold Shift in order to continuously step in > instruction mode. Would it be better to e.g. replace N->m, S->z? I > think we can basically use any non-occupied shortcuts here, they just > should be convenient, not necessarily be associated with "long" > version of the commands. > > Regards, > Ruslan Ok, I understand how having to hold shift may not be so practical. It would be nice if there was a pattern that made it easy to remember/deduce the keys for stepi/nexti from the keys for step/next, which are more obvious. For example, if we used 'a' for stepi and 'b' for nexti, the "instruction" versions of the keys would both be at the left of their "non-instruction" counterpart. That's with a QWERTY-centric view though, maybe it doesn't make sense with other layouts. Simon