From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/commit/doco] move handing of "set interactive-mode" to gdb_has_a_terminal
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110119171223.GF11960@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PfZVX-0005SF-MH@fencepost.gnu.org>
> > I feel that the name of the setting isn't great, and I've been trying
> > to find better names, but not much luck (the best I have, I feel, is
> > "set/show terminal-mode [on|off|auto]).
>
> I see nothing wrong with "set interactive-mode", maybe because I'm
> accustomed to this term in Emacs.
So maybe the name isn't so bad, after all. Changing it is a bit of
a pain in terms of transitioning from one name to the next, so that's
another argument in favor of keeping the current one.
> > If @code{auto} (the default), @value{GDBN} guesses which mode to use,
> > -based on whether the debugger was started in a terminal or not.
> > +based on standard input settings.
>
> "Based on standard input settings" sounds vague and mysterious. What
> exactly does this mean?
Basically, we test whether stdin is a terminal or not. How about:
If @code{auto} (the default), @value{GDBN} guesses which mode to use,
based on whether @value{GDBN}'s standard input is a terminal.
?
Thanks,
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-19 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-18 23:42 Joel Brobecker
2011-01-19 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-19 17:27 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-01-20 0:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-21 19:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-01-26 15:21 ` Pierre Muller
2011-01-31 3:15 ` Joel Brobecker
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