[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [LLDB] Include qualified setting name in apropos search (PR #194873)

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Wed Apr 29 12:01:31 PDT 2026


jimingham wrote:

I wonder if it is actually all that useful to show all of the properties under a node that matches the search string?  That's pretty noisy, and apropos is a fight between returning too little, and making the results noisy and hard to read.

Apropos shows you where to look for something.  When you find a command, you then often have to do `help command-apropos-found` for all the details.  So if I did:

(lldb) apropos qemu
....
The following setting node matches:
    platform.plugin.qemu-user

Then I would be happy to do:

(lldb) settings list platform.plugin.qemu-user

if that setting interested me, without having to look at all the node and settings under that node.  Particularly, if I do something like `help target` I don't really want to see the pages of hits that has.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/194873


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