Re: [RFA] new command to search memory

Doug Evans
2008-02-14T22:52:06Z

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:19:15 -0800 (PST)
> > From: dje@google.com (Doug Evans)
>
> >
> > I didn't get a response to the non-doc portions of this patch.
> > [Eli, thanks for the doc review, I made the suggested changes,
> > though I went a different route in shortening the length of the
> > line specifying the find command syntax. The end result is still
> > rather short.]
>
> You mean, rather long...
>
> The patch is okay with me, but could you (or someone else) please see
> whether these two long lines
>
>
> > +@item find @r{[}/@var{sn}@r{]} @var{start_addr}, @@@var{len}, @var{val1} @r{[}, @var{val2}, @dots{}@r{]}
> > +@itemx find @r{[}/@var{sn}@r{]} @var{start_addr}, @var{end_addr}, @var{val1} @r{[}, @var{val2}, @dots{}@r{]}
>
> survive the typesetting for the printed manual (either by TeX or
> pdftex) without overflowing the page margin? I'm afraid they will
> overflow, since the items of this table are typeset with @code, and
> @code specifies a chunk of monospaced font that cannot be broken
> between lines.

Is looking at gdb.pdf (created with cd doc && make gdb.pdf) sufficient?