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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/commit/doco] move handing of "set interactive-mode" to gdb_has_a_terminal
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PfZVX-0005SF-MH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295394141-14863-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>	(message from Joel Brobecker on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:42:21 -0500)

> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:42:21 -0500
> 
> I feel that the name of the setting isn't great, and I've been trying
> to find better names, but not much luck (the best I have, I feel, is
> "set/show terminal-mode [on|off|auto]).

I see nothing wrong with "set interactive-mode", maybe because I'm
accustomed to this term in Emacs.

> This patch also adjust the command help and the associated section in
> the GDB Manual to be a little clearer about that.

Thanks.

>  If @code{auto} (the default), @value{GDBN} guesses which mode to use,
> -based on whether the debugger was started in a terminal or not.
> +based on standard input settings.

"Based on standard input settings" sounds vague and mysterious.  What
exactly does this mean?

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18 23:42 Joel Brobecker
2011-01-19 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-19 17:27   ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-20  0:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-21 19:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-26 15:21   ` Pierre Muller
2011-01-31  3:15     ` Joel Brobecker

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