[RFA] Improve completion of locations

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:00:08 +0300
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> 
> I'm seeking approval for the patches below, which improve GDB's
> completion of locations in commands like "break LOCATION".  The two
> main improvements are:
> 
>   - GDB now considers file names as well as symbol names when you
>     type, e.g., "break foo".  If there's a symbol foo_bar and a file
>     foo-bar.c, both will be shown in the list of possible completions.
>     Only files recorded in the debug info are used for completing file
>     names for these commands.
> 
>   - When the user types "break foo.c:bar TAB", only symbols defined in
>     the source file foo.c whose names begin with "bar" will be
>     considered for completion.  This reduces the number of possible
>     completions by a large factor in many typical situations (I'd even
>     dare to say that it makes symbol completion a useful feature ;-).
> 
> This is the last installment of my recent completion-related frenzy.
> I'm now quite happy with GDB's completion ;-)
> 
> AFAICS, the responsible maintainers who need to approve these patches
> are Fernando, Elena, Michael Snyder, and someone for printcmd.c and
> infcmd.c.
> 
> 2001-05-05  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> 
> 	* completer.c (gdb_completer_loc_break_characters): New variable.
> 	(line_completion_function): If we are completing on locations,
> 	back up the start of word pointer past all characters which can
> 	appear in a location spec.
> 	(location_completer): New function.
> 
> 	* completer.h: Add prototype for location_completer.

It's been a month since I asked for approval of these patches, but the
changes for completer.[ch] are still not approved nor rejected.

Let me know how can I help you review these changes.

TIA