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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Formatting of packet descriptions in GDB manual
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2776cb0511111624h4d646cd9i1f86824c5edc613f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

The way gdb.texinfo describes packet formats is pretty wierd.  The
.texinfo says stuff like:

    @table @r
...
    @item @code{q}@code{ThreadExtraInfo}@code{,}@var{id} --- extra thread info

which is rendered in .info files as:

    `q'`ThreadExtraInfo'`,'ID -- extra thread info

Those quotes aren't helping anything at all.  The rendering in .pdf
files is fine.

I'd much rather see:

    @table @r
...
    @item @code{qThreadExtraInfo,@var{id}} --- extra thread info

which renders in .info as:

    `qThreadExtraInfo,ID' -- extra thread info

and renders the same in .pdf.

What do folks think?


             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-12  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-12  0:25 Jim Blandy [this message]
2005-11-12  7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12  8:47   ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-12 22:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 23:07       ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-13 17:12       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-13 22:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-14  2:29           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-14  4:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-14 13:49               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-16  5:47                 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-16  6:54                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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