gdb: improve command completion for 'print', 'x', and 'display'
The /FMT specification on the print command currently breaks command
completion, so:
(gdb) p var.<TAB><TAB>
.... list of fields in var .....
But,
(gdb) p/d var.<TAB><TAB>
..... list of all symbols .....
After this commit this issue is now resolved.
There are some other details around tab-completion and /FMT which
hopefully this commit improves. So, before:
(gdb) p/<TAB><TAB>
.... lists all symbols .....
After:
(gdb) p/<TAB><TAB> # Nothing changes...
The thinking here is that after a / the user must type a FMT, but we
don't offer tab completion on FMT characters. Placing a symbol
directly after a / will not do what the user expects, so offering that
seems wrong.
Similarly, before we had:
(gdb) p/d<TAB><TAB>
... lists all symbols starting with 'd' ....
But afterwards:
(gdb) p/d<TAB><TAB> # Adds a single space, so we get:
(gdb) p/d <CURSOR>
As before, typing a symbol where FMT is expected will not do what the
user expects. If the user has added a FMT string then upon tab
completion GDB assumes the FMT string is complete and prepares the
user to type an expression.
In this commit I have also added completion functions for the 'x' and
'display' commands. These commands also support /FMT specifiers and
so share some code with 'print'.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* printcmd.c: Include 'safe-ctype.c'.
(skip_over_slash_fmt): New function.
(print_command_completer): Call skip_over_slash_fmt.
(display_and_x_command_completer): New function.
(_initialize_printcmd): Add command completion for 'x' and
'display'.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/completion.exp: Add new tests.