Re: Patches to improve the gdbtui user experience

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> > don't quit
> >       SingleKey by 'q' when it's activated by a nontrivial ctrl+x
>  >       combination - the user is smart enough to exit this mode.
>
> If the only command gdb knows starting with 'q' is "quit", what
> is the use?  What is it preventing you to type?  Maybe
> a target/host specific command?  At least on cygwin 'q' is not
> ambiguous.  On the other hand, if you're in in single key mode, and
> want to type "quit", you have to type "qquit", since the first 'q' is
> eaten, else you'll end up typing "uit" :)  I guess it's a matter of
> personal taste either way.

Let me just add a note to say that in my opinion, entering
'one command mode' with any other key (that is, a key that
has no binding in 'single key mode'), is broken.  One has to
remember which keys are bound, and which aren't - that makes
it too easy to accidently issue some command you didn't
want to.  Something like pressing <space> to enter 'one
command mode' would make much more sense to me - principle of
least surprise.

eg:
I want to type 'info something', and I currently can because
'i' is not bound to anything.  With your patch, 'i' would
stepi.  There ya go, I just stepped accidently, possibly over a
jmp, when I didn't want to.  I might have wanted to 'return 0',
for example.

Cheers,
Pedro Alves