From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8605 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2010 17:15:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 8553 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Apr 2010 17:14:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:14:53 +0000 Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o39HEiCF005148 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:14:44 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o39HEhoK023127; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:14:44 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o39HEhnt031355; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:14:43 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id EEC54379786; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:14:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Sergio Durigan Junior Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans Subject: Re: [RFA] Add -s option to source command. References: <20100406215751.7EC1784397@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> <201004082008.55981.sergiodj@redhat.com> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:15:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201004082008.55981.sergiodj@redhat.com> (Sergio Durigan Junior's message of "Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:08:54 -0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00263.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior writes: Sergio> IMHO if we are going to start formatting the help strings like Sergio> `--help' output, then we should do it for the majority (if not Sergio> all) of the strings. Yeah. I'm curious to hear what other think of this idea. The reason I like it is that it is already fairly well understood, and existing gdb help strings are often less clear than the typical --help output when it comes to usage details. Tom