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Re: [RFA 5/5] Explicit linespecs - documentation
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:20:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFA 5/5] Explicit linespecs - documentation
- References: <50120FE7.8060100@redhat.com> <83394djvm1.fsf@gnu.org>
On 07/27/2012 12:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is too implementation oriented, and thus not really appropriate
> for the user manual. The text should:
>
> . explain what is an explicit spec, in a way that clarifies why it
> is called "explicit" (so that users could make a mental note of
> that, which will facilitate remembering the terminology);
Or maybe (shocking suggestion follows), not even calling
"explicit linespecs" "linespecs" at all. IOW, you either use linespecs,
or explicit locations.
--
Pedro Alves