Re: [patch] Add support for hooking prefix commands

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:54:44 +0200
> From: Sorin Otescu <sorinu@gmail.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > Can we have underscore characters in commands?  If so, this
> > implementation would defeat hooking them.
> >
> It is possible to define commands containing underscores, but none of 
> the built-in commands
> contain any (they all use dash).

That could be a problem.  What do others think?

> > Anyway, if this is accepted, please write a short patch for the manual
> > as well.
> >
> The documentation for 7.2 suggests this functionality is already there; 
> the difference is that
> you need to hook the last word of the command (in this case, 
> hook-threads). I wonder if
> that's enough / better... This patch was generated from 7.0 and adapted 
> to 7.2.

Are you saying that 7.2 already supports this feature?  Or are you
saying that it's documented there, but doesn't work?