Re: [RFC] "actionpoints"?

[Stan Shebs <stan at codesourcery dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:22:35 -0800
> > From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> >
> > It turns out there is a generic term available - "actionpoint".  It 
> > originally comes from TotalView I think, and was adopted into the HPD 
> > (high performance debugger) spec back in the 90s.
> >
> > A plus is that the term is sufficiently vague that it is sensible for 
> > watchpoints, catchpoints, tracepoints, breakpoints, and the rest of the 
> > menagerie, including future ideas we haven't thought of yet.  A minus is 
> > that it means having to teach an unfamiliar term to users, and it 
> > entails a certain amount of hacking up the manual.
> >     
>
> Not only the manual, but also some commands, such as "info break".
> They will have to be renamed.
>   
I don't think that one can be changed, it's just too heavily used in its 
current form.  That doesn't preclude adding new synonyms, and maybe 
something like "info just-breakpoints" if anyone really wants that.

Stan