[+ guile-user For background: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-12/msg00243.html ]
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tom Tromey <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <[email protected]> writes: > > Doug> One thought I have for this is "info guile pretty-printer", etc. > Doug> That simplifies a lot of things. From a u/i perspective it has > Doug> both plusses and minuses, but I like it overall. > > The problem with this approach is that it assumes that the user both > knows and cares in which extension language a given feature is > implemented. However, I don't believe either of those is true in the > most common situations. My experience with the libstdc++ printers is > that most people want them to "just work" and that any amount of > required under-the-hood knowledge is too much of a burden. OTOH, there are situations where a user can care. For those that don't care, "info pretty-printer" can still print all of them. "info pretty-printer" et.al. would need some work, sure, and one way to go would be to use "info <ext-lang> pretty-printer".
