From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Special characters in doc strings of GDB commands
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070210204729.GA29601@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3b67w8mf.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:36:56PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I see in cli-decode.c:print_doc_line that it displays the first line
> only up to the first comma or period. However, I don't see this
> special treatment of these two characters documented anywhere, neither
> in gdb.texinfo (where it matters for doc strings given to user-defined
> commands), nor in gdbint.texinfo (where it is important for GDB
> developers who add new commands).
>
> Am I missing something?
Not as far as I know.
> Btw, should we have a mechanism to escape these special characters, at
> least the comma? Sometimes a sentence looks very awkward or even
> unclear unless you use a comma.
Isn't this whole mechanism horribly i18n-unfriendly already? Perhaps
we should just change it...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-19 11:37 Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 20:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-02-11 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-11 18:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-11 20:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-11 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-12 3:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-12 17:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 17:58 ` Jim Blandy
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