From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12494 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 21:01:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12442 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 21:01:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 21:01:26 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (reddwarf.cygnus.com [205.180.231.12]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA27633; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:01:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C376873.AB744B52@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:01:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: msnyder@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] "Help" command and completion References: <200201050247.g052lHU16418@reddwarf.cygnus.com> <4949-Sat05Jan2002105028+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:47:17 -0800 > > From: Michael Snyder > > > > 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.