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* [Bug gdb/16135] New: manual should explain/suggest the "set history filename .gdb_history" use case explicitly
@ 2013-11-07 10:34 palves at redhat dot com
2013-11-07 11:02 ` [Bug gdb/16135] " palves at redhat dot com
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From: palves at redhat dot com @ 2013-11-07 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-prs
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16135
Bug ID: 16135
Summary: manual should explain/suggest the "set history
filename .gdb_history" use case explicitly
Product: gdb
Version: HEAD
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: gdb
Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
Reporter: palves at redhat dot com
Changing the default command history save location to ~/.gdb_history
is being proposed, as a prerequisite to turning on history save by
default.
However, the use case of wanting to have history in ./.gdb_history,
as GDB currently does, will be a common one. After the default location
switch the user that wants that can put:
set history filename .gdb_history
in his ~/.gdbinit, and that will work with old gdb's too.
(Or put that in a PROGRAM-gdb.gdb file instead of ~/.gdbinit, though
that won't work with old gdbs).
The user can also do something like:
alias mygdb=gdb -ex "set history filename .gdb_history" in her shell,
and then run mygdb instead of gdb.
As we switch the default command history location, we should also
explain explicitly how to point the history file at ./.gdb_history, as
it may not be obvious to a newcomer that that is possible, and common.
We should have suggestions for handling this use case in the manual.
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* [Bug gdb/16135] manual should explain/suggest the "set history filename .gdb_history" use case explicitly
2013-11-07 10:34 [Bug gdb/16135] New: manual should explain/suggest the "set history filename .gdb_history" use case explicitly palves at redhat dot com
@ 2013-11-07 11:02 ` palves at redhat dot com
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From: palves at redhat dot com @ 2013-11-07 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb-prs
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16135
Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com> changed:
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