From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add "inf" alias for "info"
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A54D440.1060103@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907081423.14012.pedro@codesourcery.com>
Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 14:18:12, Pierre Muller wrote:
>> I was used to use
>> (gdb) inf reg
>> to get a listing of registers,
>> but since the new "inferior" command appeared,
>> I now get this:
>> (gdb) inf reg
>> Ambiguous command "inf reg": inferior, info.
>>
>> The proposed patch add "inf" as an alias
>> of "info", saving the hassle of retyping "info"
>> after the message above.
>
> Why not type just "i"? It is already an alias for "info", and,
> it's shorter anyway ==> less hassle.
Because his fingers remember typing "inf". ;-)
I think we've been through this before, and the custom
has generally favored adding the alias.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 13:18 Pierre Muller
2009-07-08 13:23 ` Pedro Alves
2009-07-08 13:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-08 13:26 ` Pedro Alves
2009-07-08 13:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-08 13:48 ` Pedro Alves
2009-07-08 14:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-07-08 13:28 ` Pierre Muller
2009-07-08 13:36 ` Pedro Alves
2009-07-08 13:41 ` Pierre Muller
2009-07-08 13:44 ` Pedro Alves
2009-07-08 17:43 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2009-07-08 20:08 ` Pedro Alves
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