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Re: [RFA] Patch to limit field name completion candidates
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:01:49 -0600
>
> How about this?
>
> * When completing in expressions, gdb will attempt to limit
> completions to allowable fields, where appropriate. For instance,
> consider:
>
> # struct example { int f1; double f2; };
> # struct example variable;
> (gdb) p variable.
>
> If the user types TAB at the end of this command line, the available
> completions will be "f1" and "f2".
This is fine, but please say "structure fields" in the 1st sentence
above (the one that follows the asterisk).