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Re: [patch] Add -q in help info and doc
- From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- To: Mingjie Xing <mingjie dot xing at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 01:39:27 -0300
- Subject: Re: [patch] Add -q in help info and doc
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On Sunday, June 08 2014, Mingjie Xing wrote:
> 2014-06-06 18:26 GMT+08:00 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>:
>> I notice it's missing from the man page too.
>>
>> (cd doc; make man; man ./gdb.1)
>
> Yes. But before fixing it, I think It should be better that we can
> firstly unify the
> long option format. Currently, we use "--" prefix in the help
> information, while "-"
> in gdb.texinfo. It's confusing for users, though gdb accepts both kinds.
I agree. And last time I checked, I saw that our manpage is missing
useful options. I was planning to tackle this in some spare time (not
likely anytime soon), but if Mingjie wants to do that too...
Thanks,
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