From: Thomas Richter <thor@mail.math.tu-berlin.de>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Tab Expansion for C++
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702131655.l1DGt1m5026884@mersenne.math.TU-Berlin.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070213164628.GA15154@caradoc.them.org>
Hi Daniel,
> > the TAB expansion for C++ class members in GDB is - unfortunately - close
> > to useless.
>
> That's your misunderstanding right there - GDB doesn't support context
> sensitive tab completion at all.
>
> I think Pierre implemented this for Pascal once, but it was never
> merged. Aha, there's the patch - April 2002. There's a bit of yacc
> hacking required. I'm not really sure how it would work for C++,
> but I think badly: the grammar will not gracefully handle partially
> typed expressions, like "p ( x.<tab>".
Well, interested in a patch? It might need some tweaking to be sensitive
to the language (i.e. to accept the :: in C++ code only). Sure enough,
it won't fix *all* the problems, but I'm using it here daily and it is
a big improvement. I would need some help of the gdb gurus though to integrate
it "nicely".
So long,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-13 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 16:28 Thomas Richter
2007-02-13 16:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-13 17:08 ` Thomas Richter [this message]
2007-02-13 19:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 12:08 ` Thomas Richter
2007-02-14 12:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-19 11:48 ` Thomas Richter
2007-02-19 12:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-19 13:03 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-13 19:00 ` Andreas Schwab
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