Re: [RFA] candidates for ambiguous command in upper case

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 01/16/2017 04:32 PM, Jerome Guitton wrote:
> Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com):
> 
>> Dunno, if it doesn't make sense, and nobody uses it, then it's one
>> less thing to maintain and test.
> 
> Hard to figure out if someone uses it, I guess. This originally got
> reported by one of our users as a minor inconsistancy, who also said
> that he would be OK if gdb commands were case sensitive.
> 
> The patch that I'm suggesting is fairly simple, but my feeling is that
> it would be just as easy to remove the feature.
> 
> I've tested the opposite: making the match case sensitive is a matter
> of removing 4 characters in cli-decode.c. Not much consequences in the
> testsuite. "handle sigq" still completes to "handle SIGQUIT".
> 
> So, what do we want to do?
> 1. Remove the feature?
> 2. Improve its consistency?
> 3. Keep things as is?
> 

I vote #1.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves