From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:15:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:15:30 -0400 Received: from www.topmail.de ([212.255.16.226]:61832 "HELO www.topmail.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:15:25 -0400 Message-ID: <003a01c0d7ea$d9969f20$de00a8c0@homeip.net> From: "mirabilos" To: "Keith Owens" , , In-Reply-To: <23270.989323782@ocs3.ocs-net> Subject: Re: kdb wishlist Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:15:13 -0000 Organization: eccesys.net Linux development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > * Change kdb invocation key from ^A to ^X^X^X within 3 seconds. ^A is > used by emacs, bash, minicom etc. Why not Alt-SysRq-D (like Debug) or so? > * Command history. Handle up/down/left/right/delete keys. Each > kdba_io routine is responsible for recognising the arch specific > keys, with a common history and editting routine. yes! > * Clean up repeating commands. Pressing enter at the kdb prompt > repeats the previous command, no matter what the previous command > was. Some commands it makes no sense to repeat (bp in particular), > for other commands you want to repeat the command but without the > parameter (md in particular). Should be configurable. Sometimes I accidentally hit enter or do it just to do something... -mirabilos -- EA F0 FF 00 F0 #$@%CARRIER LOST