From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25533 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2004 19:39:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25513 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2004 19:39:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2004 19:39:06 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688162B92; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:39:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40326DD9.8030807@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:39:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: "J. Johnston" , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Pending breakpoints and scripts References: <4027E74B.6090805@gnu.org> <20040209223227.GA7344@nevyn.them.org> <40294BA1.3020906@gnu.org> <20040210222616.GA32636@nevyn.them.org> <402A3CBB.1060508@gnu.org> <20040211144755.GA487@nevyn.them.org> <40326A70.8050601@gnu.org> <20040217193118.GA31755@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:24:32PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >> >The real problem here is with batch scripts, the change breaks existing > >> >>script behavior (which is never a good thing). >> >> >> >>How about this, we introduce: >> >> nquery() >> >> yquery() >> >>where the default (batch mode, and when return is pressed is n/y >> >>respectively). We'd need the language police to look over the interface >> >>but should otherwize be ok. > >> > >> > >> >Works for me. > >> >> Lets see if we can pin down the interface (adding JeffJ to the CC list): >> >> nquery("A question?") >> >> A question? [n]: >> >> - press return => implied "n" >> - batch mode => implied "n" > > > How would you feel about "[n/y]"? Otherwise, I like this. As in?