On Tuesday, July 21, 2020, Jim Ingham via lldb-dev <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> I think adding: > > bs (break source) -> break set -y > ba (break address) -> break set -a > bn (break name) -> break set -n > > would provide a convenient way to set the most common classes of > breakpoints while not precluding access to all the other options available > to “break set”. > If these are defined as regular aliases, I wonder how many people would try, say, `bn -H whatever` and be confused when it doesn't work because it didn't do the right thing (such as creating a breakpoint named "-H" in this example). Should these new aliases support flags before and after the positional argument? Personally I think so. But to support that, it seems they'd need to be implemented with `command regex`. In that case, would it be good to add similar before/after flag composition abilities to `b` as Greg Clayton suggested? It hasn't been mentioned in this thread, but `b` has undocumented handling for flags: the prefix `b -` is expanded to `breakpoint set -`. Because of this I almost never use `breakpoint set` directly. For whatever it's worth, this means `bn` can be achieved as `b -n`, etc. As Pavel Labath suggested, I think it's worth updating the help documentation for `b` to explicitly lead users from `b` to `breakpoint set`. Dave
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