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Re: [PATCH] Add completer for skip numbers


On 2018-11-10 14:07, Pedro Alves wrote:
On 11/10/2018 05:39 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
Add completer to various commands that accept skip numbers:

  - skip enable
  - skip disable
  - skip delete
  - info skip

These commands also accept ranges, but I am not too sure of how to do
that properly, so I went for the simpler goal of complete just numbers.

A future idea would be to make a re-usable and well-tested completer for numbers and ranges. I think it could at least be re-used for breakpoint
numbers (for example with the "enable breakpoints" command).

And threads.

Right.


Please use the lib/completion-support.exp routines
for testing this.  Those exercise both the complete command
and actual TAB completion.  Above you want to use
test_gdb_complete_multiple.

You should also add:

- a test that exercises unique completions like "skip delete 12",
  with test_gdb_complete_unique.

- a test that exercises no completions at all, like "skip delete 2",
  with test_gdb_complete_none.

- some test like "skip delete a1" to make sure we don't
  mistakenly complete that a1 into a1/a10/a11/a12.

As for a range completer, doesn't e.g., "skip delete 1-2<tab>" already
try to complete the "2", and "skip delete 1-" present all the numbers?
I'd think so, given that '-' is part of the default word break chars
set (default_word_break_characters). You should add tests for that too,
IMO, since people will very naturally use it.  Even if not super smart
(e.g. 2-[TAB] ideally wouldn't present "1"), it's still useful as is.

Thanks for all the feedback, I hope I have addressed everything in v2.

Simon


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