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Re: Special characters in doc strings of GDB commands
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:47:29 -0500
- Subject: Re: Special characters in doc strings of GDB commands
- References: <u3b67w8mf.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:36:56PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I see in cli-decode.c:print_doc_line that it displays the first line
> only up to the first comma or period. However, I don't see this
> special treatment of these two characters documented anywhere, neither
> in gdb.texinfo (where it matters for doc strings given to user-defined
> commands), nor in gdbint.texinfo (where it is important for GDB
> developers who add new commands).
>
> Am I missing something?
Not as far as I know.
> Btw, should we have a mechanism to escape these special characters, at
> least the comma? Sometimes a sentence looks very awkward or even
> unclear unless you use a comma.
Isn't this whole mechanism horribly i18n-unfriendly already? Perhaps
we should just change it...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery