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Re: [RFC/WIP PATCH 07/14] Expand %ITSET% in the prompt to the current I/T set.
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:06:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC/WIP PATCH 07/14] Expand %ITSET% in the prompt to the current I/T set.
- References: <20111128153742.17761.21459.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20111128153931.17761.19802.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <m3fwh6k4l7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <201112161852.20542.pedro@codesourcery.com>
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:
Tom> I don't mind if you want to push some prompt stuff into the core, but I
Tom> think it would be better if done in a way that was compatible with the
Tom> Python prompt substitution code -- command-wise,
Tom> substitution-style-wise, and whatever else.
Pedro> I'm not certain about what you mean by this. The %%
Pedro> sustitution added applies after the python substitution, basically
Pedro> a sed before display. The result isn't stored anywhere.
Pedro> The "only" thing affected AFAICS is that to print '%', we'd have
Pedro> to escape it (e.g., %% => '%'), though I haven't implemented that.
It just seems strange to me for set extended-prompt to use one syntax,
but for this to use a different syntax. I realize consistency is not
GDB's strong suit, but this goes too far :)
Tom