This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [patchv3 12/11] New options {relative,basename}-with-system-absolute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:53:44 +0100
>> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:30:03 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:15:07 +0200
>> > > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> > > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> > >
>> > > > -set filename-display basename|relative|absolute
>> > > > +set filename-display basename|relative|absolute|relative-with-system-absolute
>> > > > + |basename-with-system-absolute
>> > >
>> > > Can't say I like these too-old names.
>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > I meant too-long, of course.
>>
>> I sure agree; just I did not find a better name.
>
> Neither did I. relative-absolute and basename-absolute, perhaps?
The nice thing about {relative,basename}-with-system-absolute is that
they are clear.
It's not like these will be typed very often, and tab-completion can
reduce a lot of that.
I like the "long" names. What real problem is being solved by terse names?
$0.02