From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21233 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2006 04:30:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 21224 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Oct 2006 04:30:37 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:30:34 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-244-77.inter.net.il [83.130.244.77]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GBW98778 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:30:28 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:30:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Jim Blandy CC: bwilson@tensilica.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: (message from Jim Blandy on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:52:29 -0700) Subject: Re: fix use of @kbd and @key in gdb.texinfo Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <452BECD7.4010402@tensilica.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 > Cc: Bob Wilson , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > From: Jim Blandy > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:52:29 -0700 > > Doesn't the gdb documentation incorporate the readline user > documentation? Yes, it does. > That does include a section on the Emacs notation. Yes, but I still have no reason to believe that anyone who reads the few references to Ctrl-C etc. throughout the rest of the GDB manual is familiar with that notation. > We do explain M- in the manual, in the section "Command Completion". > We could do the same for C-, and then we could actually use the same > notation throughout the manual. Again, there's no way I can be sure that explanation is known to whoever reads about Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D elsewhere in the manual.