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Re: [RFC] Show (tilde-)expanded filenames to the user?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Azat Khuzhin <a3at dot mail at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:49:52 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Show (tilde-)expanded filenames to the user?
- References: <1375909475-16720-1-git-send-email-a3at dot mail at gmail dot com> <5203D88C dot 8060801 at redhat dot com>
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> But, I think we should have a policy here, and all commands
Pedro> should follow it. Those that don't would be considered
Pedro> bugs. The question then is, which policy is most appropriate?
Pedro> grepping around for "tilde_expand", it seems to be the
Pedro> showing expanded filenames is more common.
I tend to think that showing the expanded name is best.
My reason is that this way the user sees what actually happened.
Tom