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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add "save history" command
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:50:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd5cce49-b773-6f6b-2f30-6dbf90df88ba@palves.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230129162105.526266-6-tom@tromey.com>

On 2023-01-29 4:21 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
>  
> +@kindex save history
> +@item save history @var{filename}
> +Occasionally you may want to save your history to a file.  This
> +command will do just that, saving the commands in your current session
> +to the named file.  Note that you should normally edit the saved
> +history before using @code{source} to reload it, as the @code{save
> +history} command itself will be at the end of the file.

We could also suggest using "server save history" here.  Something like,
"Alternatively, you can use the server prefix to blah, blah.  @xref."

Prefixing a comment with "server" makes it so that it won't be added to
the history:

  https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Server-Prefix.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-30 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-29 16:21 [PATCH 0/5] Additions to "save" command Tom Tromey
2023-01-29 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] Save breakpoints so they are automatically pending Tom Tromey
2023-01-31 15:14   ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2023-01-29 16:21 ` [PATCH 2/5] Move show_user_1 to cli-cmds.c Tom Tromey
2023-01-29 16:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] Add "save user" command Tom Tromey
2023-01-29 16:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-30 14:53   ` Pedro Alves
2023-01-30 23:35     ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-29 16:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] Add "save skip" command Tom Tromey
2023-01-29 16:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-29 16:21 ` [PATCH 5/5] Add "save history" command Tom Tromey
2023-01-29 16:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-30 14:50   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2023-01-30 15:12     ` Pedro Alves

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