[RFC] "actionpoints"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:22:35 -0800
> From: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
> 
> It turns out there is a generic term available - "actionpoint".  It 
> originally comes from TotalView I think, and was adopted into the HPD 
> (high performance debugger) spec back in the 90s.
> 
> A plus is that the term is sufficiently vague that it is sensible for 
> watchpoints, catchpoints, tracepoints, breakpoints, and the rest of the 
> menagerie, including future ideas we haven't thought of yet.  A minus is 
> that it means having to teach an unfamiliar term to users, and it 
> entails a certain amount of hacking up the manual.

Not only the manual, but also some commands, such as "info break".
They will have to be renamed.

I don't necessarily object, although personally it sounds a bit gross
to me.