[DIscussion] some thought about call a editor set the commands of breakpoints and tracepoints

[Hui Zhu]

On 03/18/13 10:24, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 12:16 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
>> So I thought why not let gdb call a editor set the commands of
>> breakpoints and tracepoints?
>> For example:
>> commands -e 1
>> Then editor come out, the original commands of 1 is inside there.  You
>> can just change some lines in there to change the commands.
>
> FWIW, GDB already has a command 'edit' which is to invoke editor to edit source file http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Edit.html
>
> It may be extended to edit breakpoint commands.
>

I am not sure about that.  This "source" is the "source" of the code.  Not the "source" command of GDB.  I'm afraid it will confuse the user.

Thanks,
Hui