Re: [PATCH 2/3] deprecate "skip enable/etc.", doc string cleanup

Doug Evans
2016-04-18T20:02:29Z

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:42:04 -0700
>> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>>
>> I certainly don't want to replicate all that text again
>> and again (hence the macros).
>
> I understand, but put yourself in the position of someone who needs to
> review a patch, and sees something like this:
>
> +Display the status of skips.\n"
> +EDDI_USAGE_DOC_STRING_WITH_ALL ("skip", "info skip", "displayed")));
>
> How does that someone know if the resulting text is good English and
> will produce a clear help text, or needs to be fixed in some way?

I'm open to suggestions.

I really hope the solution is to not expand all those macro
invocations in place.