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Re: Improve "help all"
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Cc: ghost at cs dot msu dot su, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:19:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: Improve "help all"
- References: <200610272340.26372.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <ulkn0u1ae.fsf@gnu.org> <200610281557.57708.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <ud58ctyms.fsf@gnu.org> <20061028152928.GA396@nevyn.them.org> <ei7eff$al3$1@sea.gmane.org> <13003.192.87.1.22.1162297781.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> <u64e06ry2.fsf@gnu.org> <ei9qlv$olr$1@sea.gmane.org> <uslh26hy9.fsf@gnu.org> <200611012249.kA1MnxI7011984@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:49:59 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: ghost@cs.msu.su, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> To be honest, I just think this class information isn't particular
> useful, and shouldn't be in the online help at all.
But Vladimir does have a point: without it, how will the user ever
know that "help running" will show related commands? Are you saying
that class-level help commands like "help running" should not be in
GDB?