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From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb@red-bean.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602212223p1b8fda93meb9b12e5d187b3b6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060221213324.GA30729@nevyn.them.org>

On 2/21/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> I think that we want to continue using buildargv-style quoting for CLI
> commands, and that it would be desirable to use only MI-style
> quoting for MI commands.  Does anyone disagree with this?  The fact
> that the two are somewhat inconsistent is regrettable, but
> they are nominally independent interfaces.

I think that's the right thing.  I don't think it's a significant inconsistency.

How does buildargv-style quoting interact with commands that take
expressions as arguments?  Aren't there 'set' commands that do this?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22  4:30 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22  4:35 ` Paul Koning
2006-02-22 19:57   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 21:57     ` Paul Koning
2006-02-23  4:25       ` Mark Kettenis
2006-02-25  1:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22  4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22  5:24   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 19:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 20:59       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 17:39 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2006-02-22 18:01   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 18:05     ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-22 18:11       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 19:24         ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-02-22 19:28           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-22 19:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:53       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-23 11:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-22 19:51   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-23  4:32     ` Eli Zaretskii

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