From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85716 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2019 12:25:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 85682 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jul 2019 12:25:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*F:U*tom, HX-Languages-Length:754 X-HELO: gateway32.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway32.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway32.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.145.18) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:25:44 +0000 Received: from cm17.websitewelcome.com (cm17.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.20]) by gateway32.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25D54CC1 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2019 07:25:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id hvNPhNoVg90onhvNPhKlxf; Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:25:43 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=4x987Zet+Ie+NKjxhuArU/B8qWDUH7uRH1tLuiKDfEU=; b=I3FUP9/FO45427FQOwVBdKIVw3 vUKnUG+wFz0QeWkxFQPTWbY6uxj94j7dQkOACT7ujmEyu0pUBvQwYayEbTj82bB80PUIKosLb5s7I FtxI/vQngxhgAcCYFcjnZNgrI; Received: from 174-29-48-143.hlrn.qwest.net ([174.29.48.143]:53566 helo=murgatroyd) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hhvNP-000FMe-E3; Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:25:43 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Pedro Alves Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: ui_out format strings for fields and styles (Re: [PATCH] Style "pwd" output) References: <20190605020116.1550-1-tom@tromey.com> <1ee4bd6b-4cdf-f3a9-74af-0843bf123a8b@redhat.com> <87lfygi1x0.fsf@tromey.com> <32872d6a-15d6-9718-59ae-957694e114c9@redhat.com> <87imtjhj6b.fsf@tromey.com> <625cd0ba-058d-d4bf-8ba3-8676f335b0f3@redhat.com> <87blzbep47.fsf@tromey.com> <2180f72f-da10-5333-90a1-666ba3bd145e@redhat.com> <87imtjbrmx.fsf@tromey.com> <871s056yjw.fsf@tromey.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Pedro Alves's message of "Mon, 1 Jul 2019 13:01:06 +0100") Message-ID: <87ef3aq6ux.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves writes: Pedro> Do you still see value in keeping %pN? If we make nullptr mean Pedro> "keep the default", as you mentioned earlier, then the above can be Pedro> rewritten as: Pedro> fprintf_filtered (stream, " %pS%pS", Pedro> metadata_style.style ().ptr (), reps, nullptr); I was thinking that we'd change the spelling to some form of brackets, in which case it would be good. So like "%p[%p]". We discussed this before but I don't recall whether there was some counter-argument to it. If we're just using letters, then there doesn't seem to be a reason to have two %p suffixes. Tom