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RE: How to set default value of yquery and nquery
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hui Zhu [mailto:teawater@gmail.com]
> Sent: February-25-10 1:34 AM
> To: Marc Khouzam
> Cc: tromey@redhat.com; gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: How to set default value of yquery and nquery
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:42, Marc Khouzam
> <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Do you think we can add a command to set the non-terminal query
> >> answer?
> >> For example:
> >> set non-terminal-query-default yes/no/auto auto This is
> the default
> >> value. query/yquery/nquery answer will like before.
> >> yes ?query/yquery/nquery answer will be yes no ?
> query/yquery/nquery
> >> answer will be no
> >
> > This is not perfect because every query would be answered the same
> > way. ?From a non-terminal, you many want to answer 'y' to one query
> > and 'n' to another.
> >
>
> For my idea, it just to handle the query/yquery/nquery and
> simple commands.
> After this command complete, set it back to auto can handle it.
But sometimes you don't know if a command will cause a query,
like for Precord.
> > Furthermore, sometimes the query is not directly triggered by the
> > command used. ?For example, changing a variable value will
> trigger a
> > query from PRecord, but it is not really the 'set' command
> that sends
> > the query, it is PRecord.
> >
>
> Sorry for make you spend a lot of time on query and prec, I
> think yquery and nquery didn't can be control when
> non-terminal is really a big trouble.
> I will try to make each of them have a set commands. And
> could you tell me which one make you feel bad? I will do it
> first. :)
Everything if fixed now because you don't use nquery() anymore.
So, there is nothing to fix :-)
> > I believe the cleanest solution up to now was to have individual
> > setting for each query. ?I didn't like that too much myself, but I
> > don't have a better suggestion.
> >
>
> I suggest each nquery or yquery have a set command together.
Yes, I believe that was what the maintainers suggested.
And you have this for pending breakpoints.
> The more clear way I think is the query will tell user howto
> set it non-terminal. Maybe it is too tangled.
I didn't understand this.