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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb/thread: fine-tune 'info threads' help text
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:39:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b647d30f-5e96-ac67-ee8b-4d69c1cbcdc9@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1603121558-28398-1-git-send-email-tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>

On 2020-10-19 11:32 a.m., Tankut Baris Aktemur via Gdb-patches wrote:
> The help text of 'info threads' is below:
> 
>   (gdb) help info threads
>   Display currently known threads.
>   Usage: info threads [OPTION]... [ID]...
> 
>   Options:
>     -gid
>       Show global thread IDs.If ID is given, it is a space-separated list of IDs of threads to display.
>   Otherwise, all threads are displayed.
>   (gdb)
> 
> I think the "If ID is given ..." info should have come right below
> the the usage line.  This patch reorganizes the text so that we get
> 
>   (gdb) help info threads
>   Display currently known threads.
>   Usage: info threads [OPTION]... [ID]...
>   If ID is given, it is a space-separated list of IDs of threads to display.
>   Otherwise, all threads are displayed.
> 
>   Options:
>     -gid
>       Show global thread IDs.
>   (gdb)

Hmm yeah, the "before" text looks erroneous.

I would put a blank line just after the "Usage:", because I like when things are well visually separated.  But it LGTM regardless.

Simon

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-19 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-19 15:32 Tankut Baris Aktemur via Gdb-patches
2020-10-19 15:39 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2020-10-19 15:57   ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris via Gdb-patches
2020-10-19 15:59     ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-19 18:51     ` Philippe Waroquiers via Gdb-patches
2020-10-19 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches

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