From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1406 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2002 23:15:33 -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 1038 invoked by uid 22784); 8 Jan 2002 23:15:27 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Newsgroups: cygnus.patches.gdb Subject: Re: [RFA] "Help" command and completion Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:15:00 -0000 Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: <3C3B7859.54CC8B69@redhat.com> References: <200201050247.g052lHU16418@reddwarf.cygnus.com> <4949-Sat05Jan2002105028+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3C376873.AB744B52@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: reddwarf.cygnus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cronkite.cygnus.com 1010530694 16783 205.180.231.12 (8 Jan 2002 22:58:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@cygnus.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jan 2002 22:58:14 GMT Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup cygnus.patches.gdb X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 Michael Snyder wrote: > > 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. OK to commit?