From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, chris@mips.com, macro@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Remove a trailing space resulting from file name completion
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705111250150.16433@perivale.mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uveezg4ps.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is okay, but suppose I _did_ want a file name with trailing
> space: how would I go about that in this situation? Is there a way?
> If there isn't, either we should introduce one, or else we should tell
> in the command's doc string and in the manual that this is a
> restriction.
Well, my feeling is some form of escaping would be reasonable, e.g. using
a backslash. Daniel says he has some Evil Plan in this area, which I look
forward. ;-)
> Shouldn't you again check whether anything was left after stripping
> whitespace, and if not, output the same ``no filename to set it to"
> error message?
I am unable to trigger a case where the file name would be set to an
empty string -- I get: "Argument required (filename to set it to.)."
Maciej
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-14 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 13:07 Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-05-10 13:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-05-11 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-14 12:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
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