From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ser-tcp.c: Use `localhost' as default hostname
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B6864B7.5C679974@cygnus.com>
References: <20010731210714.A3717@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3B684BBA.4090209@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00011.html

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't like to type
> >
> >   target remote localhost:1234
> >
> > all the time. It"s possible to abbreviate it to
> >
> >   ta r localhost:1234
> >
> > but I don't see a need to type `localhost'. I would like to have
> > `localhost' as default if no hostname is given like in:
> >
> >   ta r :1234
> 
> I don't have an opinion.  Does anyone strongly object or concure with this?

I think it's a great idea.  The default for "host" should be "this host".
And like Stan says, it shouldn't do any harm...