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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/tui/tui-win.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/tui/tui-win.c | 40 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/tui/tui-win.c b/gdb/tui/tui-win.c index 492a519..008189e 100644 --- a/gdb/tui/tui-win.c +++ b/gdb/tui/tui-win.c @@ -728,8 +728,44 @@ tui_set_focus_command (const char *arg, int from_tty) else win_info = tui_partial_win_by_name (arg); - if (win_info == NULL) - error (_("Unrecognized window name \"%s\""), arg); + if (win_info == nullptr) + { + /* When WIN_INFO is nullptr this can either mean that the window name + is unknown to GDB, or that the window is not in the current + layout. To try and help the user, give a different error + depending on which of these is the case. */ + std::string matching_window_name; + bool is_ambiguous = false; + + for (const std::string &name : all_known_window_names ()) + { + /* Look through all windows in the current layout, if the window + is in the current layout then we're not interested is it. */ + for (tui_win_info *item : all_tui_windows ()) + if (item->name () == name) + continue; + + if (startswith (name, arg)) + { + if (matching_window_name.empty ()) + matching_window_name = name; + else + is_ambiguous = true; + } + }; + + if (!matching_window_name.empty ()) + { + if (is_ambiguous) + error (_("No windows matching \"%s\" in the current layout"), + arg); + else + error (_("Window \"%s\" is not in the current layout"), + matching_window_name.c_str ()); + } + else + error (_("Unrecognized window name \"%s\""), arg); + } /* If a window is part of the current layout then it will have a tui_win_info associated with it and be visible, otherwise, there will |