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Re: [RFA] Add "inf" alias for "info"


On Wednesday 08 July 2009 14:41:03, Pierre Muller wrote:
> > I'm sure that you'll now get used to "i" in no time, now
> > that you know it.
> 
>   Not that sure...
> But I still think that the patch will be useful to others..

Sure, I'm not really objecting.  "inf " as is currently
isn't useful for anything anyway.

> > This revealed an interesting issue.  The
> > 
> >  'Ambiguous command "inf reg": inferior, info.'
> > 
> > ... message doesn't indicate the aliases of each alternative
> > command.  Neither does "help info" mention "i".  Maybe it should.
> > 
> > (btw, "i" + "inf" would leave "in" in a weird spot)
>
>   But "in " was ambiguous before you added
> "inferior", that is why I did not add it to the patch.
>   Nobody using a recent gdb could have used
> "in " like she/he could have used "inf ".

Yes.

-- 
Pedro Alves


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