From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: tromey@redhat.com, Daniel Berlin <dan@dberlin.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Patch: completion -vs- duplicates
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C374749.30805@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k7uw1wdh.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin <dan@dberlin.org> writes:
>
>
> Eli> The rest--how to display the candidates, whether to filter out
> Eli> duplicates, etc.--is up to the UI's completion machinery.
>
> It always makes sense to filter duplicates when doing textual
> completion. What value can there be in completing to the second of
> two identical items?
Ha, that code.
I suspect you're both right. 2c worth. The underlying code should be
using the most efficient mechanism available to complete things.
However the ``(gdb) complete'' command should be stripping duplicates.
Tom, what exactly does Insight need? Probably should do the right thing
and MI the interface.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-05 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 15:55 Tom Tromey
2002-01-05 0:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-05 7:44 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-05 10:20 ` Tom Tromey
2002-01-05 10:34 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-01-05 12:37 ` Tom Tromey
2002-01-05 10:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-05 10:37 ` Daniel Berlin
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