Re: CLI commands in MI

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > > Now, if we look at the command set someday (around mi4 maybe), and find
 > > that it's become complete, then perhaps we can disable the CLI hack.
 > 
 > How about if the front-end wants to provide a debugger console, so
 > that the user can also enter commands manually? I would have hoped
 > that we could still allow the user to use CLI commands in that console,
 > because MI commands output are somewhat difficult to read for a normal
 > human.

Thats what "-interpreter-exec console" is for.  Bob is suggesting removing the
option of sending CLI commands directly to MI (which actually works pretty much
the same way now).

 > Basically, the front-end would take the user command in CLI format,
 > send it to the MI interpreter via this feature, and then get the
 > output back, extract it from the MI output, and then display it
 > on the console.
 > 
 > Is there another way of doing this?

It switches the interpreter, executes the command, then switches back.
Don't ask me for the details though!


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