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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Remove some text from --version output
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ljc50wx.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83603to19c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 12 May	2018 09:07:27 +0300")

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> FWIW, I don't think I'd like to lose the text you removed.  At the
Eli> very least, the line about "show configuration" should be retained.
Eli> It is also quite common to show important commands at the initial
Eli> screen, e.g. see what Python or Guile show there.

It's still shown during ordinary gdb startup -- when the user could
actually type the commands.

This patch only changes --version output, where mentioning the commands
is at best redundant.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-12 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-11 19:56 Tom Tromey
2018-05-12 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-14 15:36   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-05-16 17:39 ` Pedro Alves
2018-06-04 20:24   ` Tom Tromey
2018-06-05 16:38     ` Pedro Alves

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