From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 57568 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2019 21:20:50 -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 57540 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2019 21:20:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=respond X-HELO: gateway24.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway24.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway24.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.51.251) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:20:48 +0000 Received: from cm14.websitewelcome.com (cm14.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.7]) by gateway24.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4470769E7 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:20:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id wZINgr3dq2qH7wZINgNcNZ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:20:47 -0600 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=pIo5qLTDIJPY4VHOMzY9BtQsGdQBpdEXkvaoFZWUN2Q=; b=aWYsp4eqPSwh1TWV58IXUeXNMw uZwZpDtEBUHkv8csH7uoO0KsKPCvmx4UhsVP0Q7Ykqjj/ejaGh5tTxc4yObGWQ4YmMZDOcnBh+XIt jW74vnW5t8B6AcNqhB0Q/mn0B; Received: from 75-166-72-210.hlrn.qwest.net ([75.166.72.210]:44812 helo=murgatroyd) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1gwZIN-003yh6-1k; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:20:47 -0600 From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Vrany Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MI: Add new command -complete References: <87imynm3ia.fsf@tromey.com> <20190128124101.26243-1-jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:20:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20190128124101.26243-1-jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz> (Jan Vrany's message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:40:59 +0000") Message-ID: <87pnrmnolt.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: 2019-02/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vrany writes: Jan> respond with something like (proposed change): Jan> -complete "br m" Jan> =^done,text="br m",common="a",matches=["in", "dvise"] Jan> The rarionale is that frontend most likely needs these three Jan> values anyway to implement completion. It can, indeed compute Jan> them from full list as returned now, but GDB has these values Jan> already so it would save the frontend doing the same work again. Jan> OTOH, current output is more on par with CLI command output. Jan> What do you think? I think if this form seems more useful to MI users, then it's fine to implement it. I would say this is more important than making it similar to the CLI. Tom