[PATCH] util.c + doc [was Re: [RFC] Queries and frontends]
Marc Khouzam
marc.khouzam@ericsson.com
Thu Jul 30 16:02:00 GMT 2009
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Roberts [mailto:nickrob@snap.net.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:40 AM
> To: Marc Khouzam
> Cc: Tom Tromey; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] util.c + doc [was Re: [RFC] Queries and
> frontends]
>
>
> > Doesn't this amount to using "set confirm off"?
> > I might have missed it, but I don't remember why you didn't want
> > use that instead?
>
> In the console, the user can type "set confirm on/off"
> according to his
> preference. This change ensures that confirmation isn't
> required for commands
> that the frontend runs behind the users back independently of
> this setting,
> provided they are prefixed with "server". This is only for
> CLI commands and
> does not affect frontends which use GDB/MI.
You are right, that won't help me.
Sorry about the confusion.
>
> > And this solution does not help (some) frontends with
> > answering 'y' to nquery()
>
> nquery will indeed default to 'n'.
>
> > How about:
> >
> > if (! caution)
> > return def_value;
> >
> > if (server_command)
> > return 1;
>
> That might give surprising results, e.g. accidentally setting pending
> breakpoints.
>
> AFAIK this change is for _one_ frontend (Emacs) to use _one_
> command (record
> stop). I think too much generality detracts from this
> objective as, unlike
> GDB/MI, the plan is not to develop annotations.
>
> --
> Nick
> http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
>
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