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* [RFAv6 0/3] Allow the user to define default args for aliases
@ 2020-05-16 17:19 Philippe Waroquiers
  2020-05-16 17:19 ` [RFAv6 1/3] default-args: allow to define default arguments " Philippe Waroquiers
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From: Philippe Waroquiers @ 2020-05-16 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

Allow the user to define default args for user-defined aliases.

This is version 6 of the patch series.
Compared to the previous version:
  * it handles the comment of Simon that default args should only
    be available for user-defined aliases and not for GDB commands
    and GDB pre-defined aliases.
    As default args are now only for user-defined aliases,
    the 'show/set enable-default-args [on|off]' commands have been
    removed.
  * documentation changed accordingly.
  * help and apropos now shows the full definition of the aliases having
    default args.

Previous versions handled the comments of Christian/Eli/Pedro/Tom/Simon.

This patch series implements, tests and documents the following commands:

  set default-args ALIAS [DEFAULT-ARGS...]
  show default-args [ALIAS]

It also changes the alias command to be:
  alias [-a] [--] ALIAS = COMMAND [DEFAULT-ARGS...]


Using the above default-args commands and arguments, you can
define default arguments for commands or define powerful aliases.

For example:

  alias bt_ALL = backtrace -entry-values both -frame-arg all -past-main -past-entry -full

defines the alias bt_ALL that will give as much information as possible
in a backtrace.

Default args can usefully be combined with the 'with' command, such as:

Make "wLapPeu" an alias of 2 nested "with":
  alias wLapPeu = with language pascal -- with print elements unlimited --

or have an alias pp10 to pretty print an expression with a maximum of
10 elements:

  alias pp10 = with print pretty -- with print elem 10 -- print

This patch series also adds a completer for 'alias'.

For what concerns changing 'alias -a' to 'alias -abbreviation":
This can for sure be done (and be backward compatible).  This can however
be done as a separate patch (I still also need to do a similar change
for the 'qcs' flags).



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2020-05-16 17:19 ` [RFAv6 1/3] default-args: allow to define default arguments " Philippe Waroquiers
2020-06-08 21:28   ` Simon Marchi
2020-06-09 19:49     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2020-06-09 22:59       ` Simon Marchi
2020-06-10 18:56         ` Philippe Waroquiers
2020-06-11  3:07           ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-16 17:19 ` [RFAv6 2/3] Add tests for new default-args related commands and arguments Philippe Waroquiers
2020-05-16 17:19 ` [RFAv6 3/3] NEWS and documentation for default-args related concept and commands Philippe Waroquiers
2020-05-16 17:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-24 18:53 ` [RFAv6 0/3] Allow the user to define default args for aliases Philippe Waroquiers

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