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From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Rename "info definitions"?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACTLOFpW7o0rBh4ctKGa3gez9E7fbxVfZK82Gr4XR3iVWhCoJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110921190419.542512461A9@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was wondering if it's not too late to rename "info definitions",
> or better delete it and enhance "info macros" to replace it.
> I look at "info definitions" and think "Definitions of what?  That could be
> anything." and then I find out what it refers to, look at both
> "info macros" and "info definitions", and wish I didn't have to
> think about when to use which one.
>

IMO not too late since its never hit a tar ball

in fact I'd tried to merge info macros/info definitions but the
resulting command would have 2 optional arguments, and be fairly
difficult to comprehend.

now that I think about it maybe add an optional arg to 'info macro'
replace `info definitions MACRO' with 'info macro -all MACRO' ?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 19:34 Doug Evans
2011-09-21 20:28 ` Matt Rice [this message]
2011-09-23 17:38   ` Doug Evans
2011-09-29  2:16     ` Matt Rice
2011-09-29  7:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-29 10:55       ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-29 12:41         ` Matt Rice
2011-09-29 13:28           ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-29 13:37             ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-29 13:56               ` Matt Rice
2011-09-29 14:01                 ` Pedro Alves
2011-10-03 21:18       ` Matt Rice
2011-10-04 16:51         ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-05  0:31           ` Matt Rice
2011-10-14 20:23             ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-12 17:03               ` Matt Rice
2011-11-12 17:09                 ` Matt Rice

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