From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12897 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2005 02:29:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 12887 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Nov 2005 02:29:57 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:29:57 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EbU6V-0002kj-7c; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:29:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Jim Blandy Subject: Re: Formatting of packet descriptions in GDB manual Message-ID: <20051114022955.GA10567@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com, Jim Blandy References: <8f2776cb0511111624h4d646cd9i1f86824c5edc613f@mail.gmail.com> <8f2776cb0511120047y50b3a273pe17ddd5c53342be1@mail.gmail.com> <20051113171247.GA1945@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00255.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:10:28AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:12:47 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > Cc: Jim Blandy , gdb@sources.redhat.com > > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:53:51AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > @code{z}@code{3}@code{,}@var{addr}@code{,}@var{length} > > > > > > > > > > is it important to have `z', `3', and the comma typeset as 3 separate > > > > > characters, or is it okay to see a single string `z3,'? At the time I > > > > > looked at this section, the answer was not clear to me. You seem to > > > > > indicate that it's okay to produce a single string here, but what do > > > > > others think. > > > > I don't think they need to be typeset separately. In fact, I don't > > want them to be. You can't search for useful things in the info manual > > this way - to use search (rather than index) to reach the particular > > packet, you have to know where the quotes are and search for z'`3. > > Yuck. > > This is a misunderstanding: by ``typeset separately'' I meant `z 3' > (as opposed to `z3'), not `z'`3'. Yes, I understand. But then you still can't search for the text of the packet. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC