Re: [PING][PATCH] Add shortcuts for "nexti" and "stepi" commands in Single-Key mode

Ruslan Kabatsayev
2017-08-04T05:48:28Z

Hello,

After using these shortcuts for some time I found that they are still
not best: one has to hold Shift in order to continuously step in
instruction mode. Would it be better to e.g. replace N->m, S->z? I
think we can basically use any non-occupied shortcuts here, they just
should be convenient, not necessarily be associated with "long"
version of the commands.

Regards,
Ruslan

On 27 July 2017 at 12:25, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> On 2017-07-27 11:11, Ruslan Kabatsayev wrote:
>>>
>>> I was thinking that perhaps that when focusing...
>>>
>>> a source view: s/n do source line stepping, S/N do assembly stepping
>>> an asm view: s/n do assembly stepping, S/N do source line stepping
>>>
>>> Basically, they would switch role. Is that too confusing?
>>
>> This might be OK, but what if current focus in on registers window?
>> Disable all single-key stepping?
>
>
> Indeed. And when the user is in the "Source + Asm + Prompt" configuration
> and the prompt is focused, what would we do? That's perhaps a good idea in
> theory, but it would need to be more thought through.
>
> You patch provides a predictable behavior across all modes, so I don't think
> we can go wrong with that.
>
> Simon