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From: Philippe Waroquiers via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>, Marco Barisione <mbarisione@undo.io>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Add a way to invoke redefined (overridden) GDB commands
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:47:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <553d9751c944c660dad4a204cf4609c660baa106.camel@skynet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a760448f-7dca-1f00-6ea7-1557b056d407@palves.net>

On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 19:05 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> ISTM that (optional) quotes would be the natural thing here:
> 
>     (gdb) rename "foo bar" "baz"
>     (gdb) rename "foo" "bar baz"
> 
> I'd rather leave "--" for the typical splitting of options from
> other arguments.  Commands get that for free if they use
> the cli/cli-option.h framework.  So "--" would be used like in other
> commands, to unambiguously split options from commands that may
> start with "-", like:
Effectively better to keep -- to separate options from args.

For what concerns the rename, alias uses = to separate
the 2 commands:
  (gdb) h alias
  Define a new command that is an alias of an existing command.
  Usage: alias [-a] [--] ALIAS = COMMAND [DEFAULT-ARGS...]
  ...
So, maybe better/more consistent to use = similarly for rename.

I am wondering how rename will interact with alias:
alias are resolved at definition time, so a rename
following an alias might not have the expected effect.

Thanks

Philippe



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-19 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14  9:39 Marco Barisione
2020-09-14  9:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] Move the code to execute a cmd_list_element out from execute_command Marco Barisione
2020-10-05  9:08   ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-05  9:40     ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-05 17:49       ` Andrew Burgess
2020-09-14  9:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add a way to preserve redefined GDB commands for later invocation Marco Barisione
2020-09-14 16:18   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-14 16:51     ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-05 10:24   ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-05 11:44     ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-05 18:11       ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-06  7:18         ` Marco Barisione
2020-09-28  7:54 ` [PING] Add a way to invoke redefined (overridden) GDB commands Marco Barisione
2020-10-05  7:42   ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-12 11:50 ` Pedro Alves
2020-10-19 17:41   ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-19 18:05     ` Pedro Alves
2020-10-19 18:47       ` Philippe Waroquiers via Gdb-patches [this message]
2020-10-19 19:28         ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-20 15:06           ` Pedro Alves
2020-10-20 18:19             ` Marco Barisione
2020-10-20 18:32               ` Pedro Alves
2020-10-20 15:15         ` Pedro Alves

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