# Alias command. # Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . import gdb class AliasImplementation (gdb.Command): def __init__ (self, name, real, doc): # Have to set __doc__ before the super init call. # It would be nice if gdb's help looked up __doc__ dynamically. self.__doc__ = doc # Note: no good way to complete :( super (AliasImplementation, self).__init__ (name, gdb.COMMAND_NONE) self.real = real def invoke(self, arg, from_tty): gdb.execute (self.real + ' ' + arg, from_tty) class AliasCommand (gdb.Command): """Alias one command to another. In the simplest form, the first word is the name of the alias, and the remaining words are the the expansion. An '=' by itself can be used to define a multi-word alias; words before the '=' are the name of the new command.""" def __init__ (self): # Completion is not quite right here. super (AliasCommand, self).__init__ ("alias", gdb.COMMAND_NONE, gdb.COMPLETE_COMMAND) def invoke (self, arg, from_tty): self.dont_repeat () # Without some form of quoting we can't alias a multi-word # command to another command. args = arg.split() try: start = args.index ('=') end = start + 1 except ValueError: start = 1 end = 1 target = " ".join(args[end:]) AliasImplementation (" ".join (args[0:start]), target, "This command is an alias for '%s'." % target) AliasCommand()