[New-bugs-announce] [issue15817] Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help

[Alexander Belopolsky]

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky:

Currently "help user-defined" lists commands defined in Misc/gdbinit without explanations


(gdb) help user-defined
User-defined commands.
The commands in this class are those defined by the user.
Use the "define" command to define a command.

List of commands:

lineno -- User-defined
printframe -- User-defined
pu -- User-defined
pyframe -- User-defined
pyframev -- User-defined
pyg -- User-defined

With attached patch, you get


List of commands:

lineno -- User-defined
printframe -- User-defined
pu -- Generally useful macro to print a Unicode string
pyframe -- User-defined
pyframev -- Print the current frame - verbose
pyg -- Prints a representation of the object to stderr
pylocals -- Print the local variables of the current frame
pyo -- Prints a representation of the object to stderr
pystack -- Print the entire Python call stack
pystackv -- Print the entire Python call stack - verbose mode

This should be further polished, but I wanted to hear from others before spending more effort.

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components: Demos and Tools
files: gdbinit.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 169424
nosy: belopolsky
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Misc/gdbinit: Expose command documentation to gdb help
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27050/gdbinit.diff

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