[Bug gdb/10688] New: rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[Bug gdb/10688] New: rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com]

The addition of the reverse execution commands (reverse-search, ...) has broken
the command abbreviation "rev" for reverse-search.

On the other hand, the ninth edition of the GDB manual documents rev as the
official abbreviation for reverse-search.

Please reinstate this behavior!

Typing reverse-search just to disambiguate it from the reverse execution
commands, which are supported for a tiny number of platforms, is too painful
---yes, I know about autocompletion, but it doesn't/hasn't work/ed for all
platforms.  Furthermore, the original designers of GDB clearly intended and
documented rev to mean reverse-search, and it has for many releases.

s always means step, so GDB supports "hard-wired" abbreviations.

Thanks,

Konrad Schwarz

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           Summary: rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works
           Product: gdb
           Version: 6.8
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdb
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sourceware dot org
        ReportedBy: konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com
                CC: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
  GCC host triplet: GNU gdb (GDB; openSUSE 11.1) 6.8.50.20081120-cvs


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[Bug gdb/10688] rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com]

------- Additional Comments From konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com  2009-09-23 08:49 -------
Sorry, the above example for a reverse-execution command should have been
reverse-step.

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[Bug gdb/10688] rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com]

------- Additional Comments From konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com  2009-09-23 08:53 -------
I just noticed that "fo" for forward-search is also broken.

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[Bug gdb/10688] rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[teawater at gmail dot com]

------- Additional Comments From teawater at gmail dot com  2009-09-24 02:52 -------
There is not "add_alias_cmd" for "reverse-search".

But can find a line "You can abbreviate this command as @code{rev}." in @kindex
reverse-search.

Michael, what do you think about this issue?

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[Bug gdb/10688] rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[msnyder at vmware dot com]

------- Additional Comments From msnyder at vmware dot com  2009-09-24 03:39 -------
Subject: Re:  rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer
 works

teawater at gmail dot com wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From teawater at gmail dot com  2009-09-24 02:52 -------
> There is not "add_alias_cmd" for "reverse-search".
> 
> But can find a line "You can abbreviate this command as @code{rev}." in @kindex
> reverse-search.
> 
> Michael, what do you think about this issue?

I agree -- reverse-search should have precedence, since it was 
implemented before the others.




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[Bug gdb/10688] rev abbreviation for reverse-search no longer works

[tromey at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From tromey at redhat dot com  2010-08-24 22:06 -------
Fixed in 7.2.

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
   Target Milestone|6.8                         |7.2


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