From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Formatting of packet descriptions in GDB manual
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoe4nj1ih.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051114022955.GA10567@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:29:55 -0500)
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:29:55 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
>
> > 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.
Assuming you expect the text of the packet to contain "z3", yes. If
this assumption holds for many GDB users, then we shouldn't separate
the characters. That's exactly the kind of information I didn't feel
to possess in order to make a good decision.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-14 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-12 0:25 Jim Blandy
2005-11-12 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 8:47 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-12 22:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 23:07 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-13 17:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-13 22:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-14 2:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-14 4:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-11-14 13:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-16 5:47 ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-16 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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