[RFA] Fix/improve on-line help of 'define' command.

Philippe Waroquiers philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be
Tue Jun 12 21:58:00 GMT 2018


Ping ?

On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 23:31 +0200, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> While I was playing with 'define' to understand how some quoting was
> done (or not done), I found an inconsistency between the doc
> and the online help.
> => the doc is correct, so fixing/improving the on-line help.
> 
> 2018-06-04  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
> 
> 	* cli/cli-script.c (_initialize_cli_script): Fix online documentation
>         of 'define' command.
> ---
>  gdb/cli/cli-script.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> index 72de8ec1c7..8ceecdf435 100644
> --- a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> +++ b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> @@ -1602,7 +1602,8 @@ Define a new command name.  Command name is argument.\n\
>  Definition appears on following lines, one command per line.\n\
>  End with a line of just \"end\".\n\
>  Use the \"document\" command to give documentation for the new command.\n\
> -Commands defined in this way may have up to ten arguments."));
> +Commands defined in this way may accept an unlimited number of arguments\n\
> +accessed via $arg0 .. $argN. $argc tells how many arguments have been passed."));
>  
>    add_com ("while", class_support, while_command, _("\
>  Execute nested commands WHILE the conditional expression is non zero.\n\



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