CLI commands in MI

Nick Roberts
2006-05-11T06:02:41Z

Bob Rossi writes:
> I'm thinking it would be a good idea to remove the ability to enter CLI
> commands into the MI interpreter. Does anyone disagree?

Yes. I find it very convenient to see whats going on. To get to a given
execution state its easier type the CLI command directly, rather than the MI
one which is generally longer and doesn't allow abbreviations, or prefix
everything with -interpreter-exec.

> I think the only thing it can cause is confusion. Especially since
> entering the '-exec-run' command gives different results than the
> '-interpreter-exec console "r"' command which gives different results
> than the 'r' command.

I don't how you can say that as directly entered CLI commands now (implicitly)
use -interpreter-exec console. AFAICS the only difference is the extra &"r\n".

> Now that -interpreter-exec is available, is there any reason beyond
> trying to confuse us all that console commands are allowed?

No one is forcing you to use it. Why would you want to force others not
to use it?

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