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Using Built-in and Group Aliases
t1.7> The current focus is thread 7 of process 1.
gW3.> The current focus is all worker threads in the control
group that contains process 3.
p3/3 The current focus is all processes in process 3, group 3.
You can change the prompt’s appearance by using the dset command to
set the PROMPT state variable; for example:
dset PROMPT "Kill this bug! > "
Using Built-in and Group Aliases
Many CLI commands have an alias that let you abbreviate the command’s
name. (An alias is one or more characters that Tcl interprets as a command
or command argument.)
The alias command, which is described in the TotalView Reference Guide, lets you create
your own aliases.
For example, the following command tells the CLI to halt the current group:
dfocus g dhalt
Using an abbreviation is easier. The following command does the same thing:
f g h
You often type less-used commands in full, but some commands are
almost always abbreviated. These commands include dbreak (b), ddown
(d), dfocus (f), dgo (g), dlist (l), dnext (n), dprint (p), dstep (s), and dup (u).
The CLI also includes uppercase group versions of aliases for a number of
commands, including all stepping commands. For example, the alias for
dstep is s; in contrast, S is the alias for dfocus g dstep. (The first command
tells the CLI to step the process. The second steps the control group.)
Group aliases differ from the group-level command that you type interactively,
as follows:
� They do not work if the current focus is a list. The g focus specifier modifies
the current focus, and can only be applied if the focus contains just
one term.
� They always act on the group, no matter what width is specified in the
current focus. Therefore, dfocus t S does a step-group command.
208 Chapter 10: Using the CLI