From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9538 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2010 17:15:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 9522 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Apr 2010 17:15:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:15:46 +0000 Received: from kpbe19.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe19.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.83]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o39HFhL6022283 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:15:43 +0200 Received: from pwi8 (pwi8.prod.google.com [10.241.219.8]) by kpbe19.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o39HEppV028082 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:15:42 -0700 Received: by pwi8 with SMTP id 8so2792660pwi.1 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:15:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.247.17 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:15:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100406215751.7EC1784397@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:15:00 -0000 Received: by 10.141.14.15 with SMTP id r15mr592401rvi.139.1270833341465; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFA] Add -s option to source command. From: Doug Evans To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00264.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans writes: > >>> I often wish that gdb help strings were formatted more like --help >>> output. > > Doug> Something like this? > > I didn't intend for you to actually do this, but I do like it :-) I do too fwiw. But there's still the open question of deferring making this change until it can be made en-masse. I don't have time to make an en-masse change right now, but I'm happy to check in either version of the help text for the source command today.