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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Patch to limit field name completion candidates
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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> Thanks, but this text leaves too many questions unanswered (what is
Eli> ``allowable field names''? allowable by whom? what are ``field
Eli> operations''? etc.).  I think an example will go a long way towards
Eli> making this clear.

How about this?

* When completing in expressions, gdb will attempt to limit
completions to allowable fields, where appropriate.  For instance,
consider:

    # struct example { int f1; double f2; };
    # struct example variable;
    (gdb) p variable.

If the user types TAB at the end of this command line, the available
completions will be "f1" and "f2".



Tom