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From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, pedro@codesourcery.com,   gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch/doc] Tweak "info inferiors" output.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A89B61F.5090307@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eirai8et.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:52:46 -0600
>>
>>     
>>>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>>>>               
>> Eli> Let me turn the table around and ask you how about if we remove the
>> Eli> column headers from "info inferiors" display, like with "info
>> Eli> threads"?
>>
>> Please don't.  The column headers provide actually useful information to
>> the user.  It is a bug that info threads doesn't have them.
>>     
>
> Fair enough, but then please suggest useful headers for these two
> displays.
>   
I think "ID" for the first column is fine, and maybe just "Description" 
for the second.  I don't think we require targets to promise uniqueness 
for their own info,  and the column headers are just hints, not complete 
documentation on what one might expect to see in the column; so it 
should be something a little vague and generic.

We alway change it later if user feedback is negative.

Stan


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14 16:22 Pedro Alves
2009-08-14 17:38 ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-14 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-14 19:27   ` Pedro Alves
2009-08-14 20:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-17 14:37       ` Pedro Alves
2009-08-17 14:45         ` Pedro Alves
2009-08-17 17:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-17 18:01           ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-17 19:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-17 20:12               ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2009-08-24 11:15                 ` Pedro Alves
2009-08-24 18:54                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-25 15:40                     ` Pedro Alves

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