Re: [PATCH 2/2] Star wildcard ranges (e.g., "info thread 2.*")

Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-13T17:00:36Z

> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:34:45 +0000
>
> Add support for specifying "all threads of inferior N", by writing "*"
> as thread number/range in thread ID lists.
>
> E.g., "info threads 2.*" or "thread apply 2.* bt".

Thanks.

> +* In commands that accept thread IDs lists, you can now refer to all

"thread ID lists", only one word in plural. Or maybe even better:
"lists of thread IDs".

> +argument. A list element can be:
> +
> +@enumerate
> +@item
> +a thread ID as shown in the first field of the @samp{info threads}
> +display, with or without an inferior qualifier. E.g., @samp{2.1} or
> +@samp{1}.
> +
> +@item
> +a range of thread numbers, again with or without an inferior
> +qualifier, as in @var{inf}.@var{thr1}-@var{thr2} or
> +@var{thr1}-@var{thr2}. E.g., @samp{1.2-4} or @samp{2-4}.
> +
> +@item
> +all threads of an inferior, specified with a star wildcard, with or
> +without an inferior qualifier, as in @var{inf}.@code{*} (e.g.,
> +@samp{1.*}) or @code{*}. The former refers to all threads of the
> +given inferior, and the latter form without an inferior qualifier
> +refers to all threads of the current inferior.

In this enumeration, each item begins with a lower-case letter, and
then continues with another sentence. I suggest to capitalize the
first letter of each item, to be more grammatically correct.

Otherwise, the documentation parts are OK.