From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 61453@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61453: It is annoying to have to type 'print foo' before each .gdbinit command.
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:33:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qmuhgyk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+kuqIkrrRhrDHMg@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:23:36 +0000)
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:23:36 +0000
> Cc: 61453@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > Which is why we also have "pr".
>
> OK, but that doesn't help with the annoyance in xpr and friends.
> Anybody typing an expression with spaces into xpr can continue to use
> print followed by xpr without arguments. For the usual case, when
> there's exactly one argument, my patch resolves the annoyance. It now
> handles the $argc > 1 case as an error.
>
> So, why not install this patch in master, now?
I don't like it, sorry. It is not clean enough, and it goes against
the overall consistency of the commands we have in src/.gdbinit.
You can always have any commands you want in your own ~/.gdbinit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-12 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-12 13:01 bug#61453: It is annoying to have to type 'print foo' before each .gdbinit command Alan Mackenzie
2023-02-12 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-02-12 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 14:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-02-12 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 16:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-02-12 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 18:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-02-12 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-12 18:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-02-12 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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