This is the mail archive of the gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the GDB project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [RFA] "Help" command and completion


Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:47:17 -0800
> > > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
> > >
> > > Hmmm... currently the help command uses the default completer,
> > > which completes on symbols.  That's definitely not right.
> > > Ideally, we want to complete on commands or something, but
> > > substituting the noop complete would definitely be better than
> > > completing on symbols.
> >
> > How is no completion better than completion on symbols?
> 
> Because the symbols in the program being debugged
> can't possibly have anything to do with gdb commands,
> and therefore can't possibly be valid arguments for "help".
> Not even if you're debugging gdb.

OK to commit?


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]