Re: Hopefully my last request for 5.0 incorporation

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

For sake of reference by the others I will repeat here what is being proposed.


1) Have "i r" stand for "info reg".  This used to work before but the addition of a new (much less
frequently used) info command that also starts with "r" ("info remote-process") made it ambiguous.

"i r" is so much used that I am in favor of adding this one.  As I heard nothing to the contrary I
will add it to gdb5.

2) Have "maint i" stand for "maint info".  This also worked before but the addition of "maint
internal-error" it does not work anymore.

I am quite concerned about adding alias that are so short.  However, "i" is an alias for the "info"
command, and this is a very strong argument in favor of making it an alias for "info" under
"maintenance".  After all "maintenance" is just a prefix that help us separate our "internal use
only" (TM) commands from the normal user commands.

So, in this one exceptional case, due to the long term acceptance of "i" as short for "info", I will
incorporate it.


But please folks, no more cryptic abrevs pls. ;-)



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