From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25350 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2006 16:02:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 25338 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2006 16:02:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eastrmmtao05.cox.net (HELO eastrmmtao05.cox.net) (68.230.240.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:02:13 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([68.9.66.48]) by eastrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060113160202.RUOP14098.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:02:02 -0500 Received: from bob by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ExRNf-0001rE-Fu; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:02:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:02:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Paul Koning Cc: eliz@gnu.org, msnyder@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, jrydberg@virtutech.com, fche@redhat.com, brolley@redhat.com, ebachalo@redhat.com Subject: Re: Return to Reverse Execution Message-ID: <20060113160223.GC6770@brasko.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Koning , eliz@gnu.org, msnyder@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, jrydberg@virtutech.com, fche@redhat.com, brolley@redhat.com, ebachalo@redhat.com References: <43BC376F.4000307@redhat.com> <43BDF1D6.1040807@redhat.com> <17342.35464.445000.474814@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17342.35464.445000.474814@gargle.gargle.HOWL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:19:36AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote: > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:28:06 -0800 From: Michael Snyder > >> Eli, I'm certainly willing to consider it, but as I review the > >> previous discussion, it seems like you were the only proponant of > >> these names. > > Eli> That might be so, but please note that you yourself used > Eli> ``back'' and ``backward'' in almost every other place in your > Eli> description except the command names. Doesn't this tell you > Eli> something? > > I'll add my voice to Eli. "Back" is a direction; "reverse" is (in one > of its meanings) a change of direction. Has anyone even considered "Previous", instead of "Back" or "Reverse"? I mean, Previous/Next go together IMO, just as Backward/Forward go together. It makes perfect sense to me to allow the user to go the the previous executed line. Bob Rossi