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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Implement completion limiting
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FBA428.4020404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140212115759.GC2866@blade.nx>

On 02/12/2014 11:57 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
> +@smallexample
> +(@value{GDBP}) b @key{TAB}@key{TAB}
> +Too many possibilities.
> +@end smallexample
> +

Does the user lose the edit line after that, or can he
continue typing the command?

I'd also suggest saying "completion candidates" instead of
"possibilities".  Sounds more accurate / less vague to me.
(here and elsewhere in the docs and inline help as well)

-- 
Pedro Alves


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12 11:55 [PATCH 0/2] Limit tab-completion result when list is large Gary Benson
2014-02-12 11:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add expansion_notify callback to expand_symtabs_matching Gary Benson
2014-02-12 20:10   ` Tom Tromey
2014-02-12 11:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] Implement completion limiting Gary Benson
2014-02-12 16:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-12 16:41   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2014-02-12 20:53     ` Gary Benson
2014-02-12 21:41       ` Pedro Alves

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