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Re: Hopefully my last request for 5.0 incorporation
- To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Hopefully my last request for 5.0 incorporation
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:58:55 +1000
- CC: "Peter.Schauer" <Peter dot Schauer at Regent dot E-Technik dot TU-Muenchen dot DE>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <200004131903.VAA10696@reglos.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> <38F66D15.A68BBB52@cygnus.com> <38F721D0.4CFF03E8@redhat.com>
FYI,
I've applied the relevant patches to both the trunk and the 5.0 branch.
Andrew
Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
> For sake of reference by the others I will repeat here what is being proposed.
>
> 1) Have "i r" stand for "info reg". This used to work before but the addition of a new (much less
> frequently used) info command that also starts with "r" ("info remote-process") made it ambiguous.
>
> "i r" is so much used that I am in favor of adding this one. As I heard nothing to the contrary I
> will add it to gdb5.
>
> 2) Have "maint i" stand for "maint info". This also worked before but the addition of "maint
> internal-error" it does not work anymore.
>
> I am quite concerned about adding alias that are so short. However, "i" is an alias for the "info"
> command, and this is a very strong argument in favor of making it an alias for "info" under
> "maintenance". After all "maintenance" is just a prefix that help us separate our "internal use
> only" (TM) commands from the normal user commands.
>
> So, in this one exceptional case, due to the long term acceptance of "i" as short for "info", I will
> incorporate it.
>
> But please folks, no more cryptic abrevs pls. ;-)
>
> --
> Fernando Nasser
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