Re: mi tty commands

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:14:28 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:08:11PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > > -  c = add_com ("tty", class_run, tty_command,
> > > > -	       _("Set terminal for future runs of program being debugged."));
> > > > +  /* add the filename of the terminal connected to inferior I/O */
> > > > +  add_setshow_string_noescape_cmd ("inferior-tty", class_run,
> > > > +				   &inferior_io_terminal, _("\
> > > > +Set terminal for future runs of program being debugged."), _("\
> > > > +Show terminal for future runs of program being debugged."), _("\
> > > > +Usage: set inferior-tty /dev/pts/1"), NULL, NULL, &setlist, &showlist);
> > > >    set_cmd_completer (c, filename_completer);
> > > > +  add_com_alias ("tty", "set inferior-tty", class_alias, 0);
> > > 
> > > This seems nice.  I was thinking of replacing "tty" with "set tty"
> > > instead of "set inferior-tty", but I don't have a strong preference one
> > > way or the other.
> > 
> > I didn't change this, since there is an alias. However, the more I
> > think about it, it would be fine with me if this was changed to simply
> > 'tty'. Eventually, I might add a console-tty, which is the reason I was
> > more specific with inferior-tty, instead of just tty. What do you think?
> 
> Right - what we have now is "tty", this patch preserves "tty" and adds
> "set inferior-tty".  Might as well stay with that.  It's a little more
> descriptive.

My opinion as well.  In any case, the set/show commands should remain
consistent wrt the symmetry between the set and show command.  I
suggested to add an alias to "tty" for reasons of backward
compatibility.