Re: [RFA] Add -s option to source command.

[Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior
<sergiodj@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 April 2010 19:49:41, Doug Evans wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > I often wish that gdb help strings were formatted more like --help
>> > output.
>> >
>> > Tom
>>
>> Something like this?
>>
>> @@ -1379,8 +1437,12 @@ Commands defined in this way may have up
>>
>> ? ?source_help_text = xstrprintf (_("\
>> ?Read commands from a file named FILE.\n\
>> -Optional -v switch (before the filename) causes each command in\n\
>> -FILE to be echoed as it is executed.\n\
>> +\n\
>> +Usage: source [-s] [-v] FILE\n\
>> +-s: search for the script in the source search path,\n\
>> + ? ?even if FILE contains directories.\n\
>> +-v: each command in FILE is echoed as it is executed.\n\
>> +\n\
>> ?Note that the file \"%s\" is read automatically in this way\n\
>> ?when GDB is started."), gdbinit);
>> ? ?c = add_cmd ("source", class_support, source_command,
>
> I totally agree with Tom here, but I don't know if it's a good thing to change
> the "standard" only in this feature without converting the other GDB help
> strings as well. ?IMHO if we are going to start formatting the help strings
> like `--help' output, then we should do it for the majority (if not all) of
> the strings.
>
> Anyway, my half cent here.

Sure.
That one might want to wait and do it en-masse I left as a given.
The powers that be can decide, and I'll submit what they want.