From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Cc: lsix@lancelotsix.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] gdb: add match formatter mechanism for 'complete' command output
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 09:39:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y19hrcke.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il0m43m9.fsf@redhat.com> (message from Andrew Burgess on Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:29:02 +0100)
> From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
> Cc: lsix@lancelotsix.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:29:02 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> (gdb) file '/tmp/xx<TAB>
> >> => (gdb) file '/tmp/xx/'
> >> (gdb) file '/tmp/xx/'abcd<ENTER>
> >> => ?? What would this do?
> >>
> >> What if there really was a file /tmp/xx/'abcd ? What happens then?
> >
> > ENTER does the same as TAB, and then submits the result. So GDB will
> > see '/tmp/xx/abcd' in that case.
>
> This all sounds great. Do you know of any other readline based projects
> that do completion like this?
No, not off the top of my head.
Ironically, the Windows shell cmd.exe does behave like that.
> Maybe then you know that readline can be made to do things differently
> (hence me asking for examples). Or maybe you're suggesting we should
> forget readline and do things as you suggest ... I'm just trying to
> figure out what you ideal end result is here.
If Readline doesn't want to go this way, I think in the long run GDB
should develop its own completion machinery. But I'm okay with
leaving that alone for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-13 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-29 11:42 [PATCH 0/6] Further filename completion improvements Andrew Burgess
2024-03-29 11:42 ` [PATCH 1/6] gdb: improve escaping when completing filenames Andrew Burgess
2024-03-30 23:48 ` Lancelot SIX
2024-03-29 11:42 ` [PATCH 2/6] gdb: move display of completion results into completion_result class Andrew Burgess
2024-03-29 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-30 23:30 ` Lancelot SIX
2024-03-31 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 17:24 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-12 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 22:20 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-13 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-13 9:09 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-13 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 17:31 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-03-29 11:42 ` [PATCH 3/6] gdb: simplify completion_result::print_matches Andrew Burgess
2024-03-30 23:48 ` Lancelot SIX
2024-03-29 11:42 ` [PATCH 4/6] gdb: add match formatter mechanism for 'complete' command output Andrew Burgess
2024-03-30 23:49 ` Lancelot SIX
2024-03-31 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 17:42 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-12 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-12 22:29 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-13 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-29 11:42 ` [PATCH 5/6] gdb: apply escaping to filenames in 'complete' results Andrew Burgess
2024-03-29 11:42 ` [PATCH 6/6] gdb: improve gdb_rl_find_completion_word for quoted words Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 0/8] Further filename completion improvements Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] gdb/doc: document how filename arguments are formatted Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-27 10:01 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-27 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-29 9:10 ` Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 2/8] gdb: split apart two different types of filename completion Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 3/8] gdb: improve escaping when completing filenames Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 4/8] gdb: move display of completion results into completion_result class Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 5/8] gdb: simplify completion_result::print_matches Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 6/8] gdb: add match formatter mechanism for 'complete' command output Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 7/8] gdb: apply escaping to filenames in 'complete' results Andrew Burgess
2024-04-20 9:10 ` [PATCHv2 8/8] gdb: improve gdb_rl_find_completion_word for quoted words Andrew Burgess
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 0/7] Further filename completion improvements Andrew Burgess
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 1/7] gdb: split apart two different types of filename completion Andrew Burgess
2024-06-06 16:18 ` Tom Tromey
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 2/7] gdb: improve escaping when completing filenames Andrew Burgess
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 3/7] gdb: move display of completion results into completion_result class Andrew Burgess
2024-06-06 16:19 ` Tom Tromey
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 4/7] gdb: simplify completion_result::print_matches Andrew Burgess
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 5/7] gdb: add match formatter mechanism for 'complete' command output Andrew Burgess
2024-06-06 16:14 ` Tom Tromey
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 6/7] gdb: apply escaping to filenames in 'complete' results Andrew Burgess
2024-06-05 13:36 ` [PATCHv3 7/7] gdb: improve gdb_rl_find_completion_word for quoted words Andrew Burgess
2024-06-06 16:24 ` [PATCHv3 0/7] Further filename completion improvements Tom Tromey
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