Special characters in doc strings of GDB commands

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:36:56PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I see in cli-decode.c:print_doc_line that it displays the first line
> only up to the first comma or period.  However, I don't see this
> special treatment of these two characters documented anywhere, neither
> in gdb.texinfo (where it matters for doc strings given to user-defined
> commands), nor in gdbint.texinfo (where it is important for GDB
> developers who add new commands).
> 
> Am I missing something?

Not as far as I know.

> Btw, should we have a mechanism to escape these special characters, at
> least the comma?  Sometimes a sentence looks very awkward or even
> unclear unless you use a comma.

Isn't this whole mechanism horribly i18n-unfriendly already?  Perhaps
we should just change it...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery