From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dje@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add -s option to source command.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ljcwzfev.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrwglf99.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:14:42 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Sergio> IMHO if we are going to start formatting the help strings like
> Sergio> `--help' output, then we should do it for the majority (if not
> Sergio> all) of the strings.
>
> Yeah. I'm curious to hear what other think of this idea.
>
> The reason I like it is that it is already fairly well understood, and
> existing gdb help strings are often less clear than the typical --help
> output when it comes to usage details.
The current doc strings are modeled after Emacs. I actually like the
current format, while the suggested one will waste precious screen
space. But if others want to switch, I won't object.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 21:58 Doug Evans
2010-04-06 23:17 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-07 20:14 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-08 22:49 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-08 23:09 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2010-04-09 0:13 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-09 17:15 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-09 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-04-10 1:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-09 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-09 17:23 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-09 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-09 18:12 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-09 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-09 19:49 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-12 17:31 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-12 17:33 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-12 17:47 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-12 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-14 22:01 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-15 3:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-09 17:13 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-09 17:15 ` Doug Evans
2010-04-09 17:19 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-17 15:20 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-20 5:38 ` Doug Evans
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