Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MI: Add new command -complete

Tom Tromey
2019-02-20T21:20:50Z

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz> writes:

Jan> respond with something like (proposed change):

Jan> -complete "br m"
Jan> =^done,text="br m",common="a",matches=["in", "dvise"]

Jan> The rarionale is that frontend most likely needs these three
Jan> values anyway to implement completion. It can, indeed compute
Jan> them from full list as returned now, but GDB has these values
Jan> already so it would save the frontend doing the same work again.

Jan> OTOH, current output is more on par with CLI command output.

Jan> What do you think?

I think if this form seems more useful to MI users, then it's fine to
implement it. I would say this is more important than making it similar
to the CLI.

Tom