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Re: [PATCH] -stack-select-frame
> > -stack-info-frame hasn't been implemented yet (I've think we've been here
> > before) but it would probably be quite easy to implement and I guess it
> > could work like I've made -stack-select-frame without an argument work.
>
> *snicker* that's what I get for reading the manual. I assumed it was
> implemented.
>
> Maybe it is time to mark the unimplemented commands in the manual?
It _is_ documented as unimplemented in my copy.
...
> If you're OK with only a literal "-stack-select-frame" providing the
> frame information, how about implementing -stack-info-frame instead?
> The documentation for -stack-select-frame does not suggest the argument
> is optional; we could make it mandatory. It just seems cleaner to me
> to have select be write-only and info be read-only.
The CLI command is both write-only and read-only. Clearly there's no
need to copy what might be existing bad practice and the command name
-stack-select-frame to provide frame information is unintuitive. I'll
submit a patch to make -stack-info-frame do this.
Nick