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diff --git a/gdb/doc/guile.texi b/gdb/doc/guile.texi index 7b3f0a9..9677229 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/guile.texi +++ b/gdb/doc/guile.texi @@ -1772,6 +1772,16 @@ invoking it interactively. If this function throws an exception, it is turned into a @value{GDBN} @code{error} call. Otherwise, the return value is ignored. +For non-prefix commands, @var{invoke} is required. For prefix +commands @var{invoke} is optional. Only prefix commands that need to +handle unknown sub-commands should supply @var{invoke}. + +For prefix commands that don't supply @var{invoke}, if the prefix +command is used without a sub-command name then @value{GDBN} will +display the help text for every sub-command, unless the prefix command +is a @kbd{show} sub-command, in which case @value{GDBN} will list the +values of all sub-commands. + The argument @var{command-class} is one of the @samp{COMMAND_} constants defined below. This argument tells @value{GDBN} how to categorize the new command in the help system. The default is @code{COMMAND_NONE}. |