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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hmp-commands.hx: List abbreviation after command for cont, quit, print
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:05:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d016c8b-aa2b-6416-ab39-dc7517a02010@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201121151711.20783-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

On 11/21/20 4:17 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We have four HMP commands which have a single-character abbreviated
> version: cont ('c'), quit ('q'), print ('p') and help ('h').  For
> cont, quit and print, we list the abbreviation first in the help
> documentation and the command name.  This has the odd effect that in
> the full 'help' command list these commands end up sorted out of
> alphabetical order (they end up after all the other commands that
> start with the same letter).  As it happens, the only place this
> currently changes the order is for 'cont'.
> 
> Abbreviation first is also not a very logical order, and it doesn't
> match what we use for 'help' (which is 'help|?').  Put the full
> command name first in both the help text and the .name field for
> cont, quit and print.
> 
> Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1614609
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  hmp-commands.hx | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-21 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-21 15:17 [PATCH] hmp-commands.hx: List abbreviation after command for cont, quit, print Peter Maydell
2020-11-21 16:05 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2020-12-01 10:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-08 18:05 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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