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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MI: Add new command -complete
- From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- To: Jan Vrany <jan dot vrany at fit dot cvut dot cz>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:20:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MI: Add new command -complete
- References: <87imynm3ia.fsf@tromey.com> <20190128124101.26243-1-jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz>
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz> writes:
Jan> respond with something like (proposed change):
Jan> -complete "br m"
Jan> =^done,text="br m",common="a",matches=["in", "dvise"]
Jan> The rarionale is that frontend most likely needs these three
Jan> values anyway to implement completion. It can, indeed compute
Jan> them from full list as returned now, but GDB has these values
Jan> already so it would save the frontend doing the same work again.
Jan> OTOH, current output is more on par with CLI command output.
Jan> What do you think?
I think if this form seems more useful to MI users, then it's fine to
implement it. I would say this is more important than making it similar
to the CLI.
Tom