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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [discuss] Support for reverse-execution
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:03:42 -0400
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>> Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
>> 
>> This one's kind of nice, we could use suffixes instead.  But
>> next-backwards is very awkward:
>>   continue-backwards, step-backwards, next-backwards, stepi-backwards,
>>   nexti-backwards, until-backwards, advance-backwards, finish-backwards
>
> These are okay from the mnemonic point of view, but they have a big
> disadvantage for a CLI junky such as myself: they make "next" etc.
> ambiguous,

They don't have to.  We have "s" as alias of "step" even though strictly
speaking it is ambigous (we have many commands starting with "s").

Andreas.

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