From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: msnyder@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] "Help" command and completion
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C376873.AB744B52@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4949-Sat05Jan2002105028+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:47:17 -0800
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
> >
> > Hmmm... currently the help command uses the default completer,
> > which completes on symbols. That's definitely not right.
> > Ideally, we want to complete on commands or something, but
> > substituting the noop complete would definitely be better than
> > completing on symbols.
>
> How is no completion better than completion on symbols?
Because the symbols in the program being debugged
can't possibly have anything to do with gdb commands,
and therefore can't possibly be valid arguments for "help".
Not even if you're debugging gdb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-05 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 18:52 Michael Snyder
2002-01-05 0:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-05 13:01 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2002-01-08 15:15 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-08 23:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-09 7:19 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-01-09 10:28 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-09 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-09 11:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-09 11:24 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-01-10 0:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-10 7:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-13 11:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-10 0:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-10 0:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-13 11:37 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-09 10:27 ` Michael Snyder
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