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[Cgdb-users] Any Command History?

[James L. <le...@al...>]

Hi,

I've been using cgdb quite a lot.

is there any command history in cgdb? The docs are very minimal and I
don't seem to find any discussion on it. Often found myself needing to
repeat some command, but don't like having to do a lot of typing (eg.
examining data values). '!' or '!!' doesn't seem to work. Of course,
if there is readline editing, that will be even better.

Thanks. Keep up the good work.


James.

Re: [Cgdb-users] Any Command History?

[Bob R. <bo...@br...>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:16:08PM +0000, James Lee wrote:
> Hi,
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> I've been using cgdb quite a lot.
>=20
> is there any command history in cgdb? The docs are very minimal and I
> don't seem to find any discussion on it. Often found myself needing to
> repeat some command, but don't like having to do a lot of typing (eg.
> examining data values). '!' or '!!' doesn't seem to work. Of course,
> if there is readline editing, that will be even better.

What version are you using? What system? What version of readline did
you link against?

At some point (don't know when) we added readline to the TGDB. So,
if you start up CGDB, you should be able to do all of the readline
commands when typing into the GDB window. This even includes reverse
search through the history (^r).

Look at $HOME/.tgdb/readline-tgdb.dat. Is the file there?
That's the file that stores the history.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi

Re: [Cgdb-users] Any Command History?

[James L. <le...@al...>]

Bob Rossi [bo...@br...] wrote:
> At some point (don't know when) we added readline to the TGDB. So,
> if you start up CGDB, you should be able to do all of the readline
> commands when typing into the GDB window. This even includes reverse
> search through the history (^r).


Oops. Turns out it was there and working with ^r. I was just too
used to using Forte/Workshop's '!' and gdb's back arrow keys.

Sorry.


James.

Re: [Cgdb-users] Any Command History?

[Bob R. <bo...@br...>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:49:27PM +0000, James Lee wrote:
> Bob Rossi [bo...@br...] wrote:
> > At some point (don't know when) we added readline to the TGDB. So,
> > if you start up CGDB, you should be able to do all of the readline
> > commands when typing into the GDB window. This even includes reverse
> > search through the history (^r).
>=20
>=20
> Oops. Turns out it was there and working with ^r. I was just too
> used to using Forte/Workshop's '!' and gdb's back arrow keys.

Glad to hear it works for you. The arrow keys should also work, let me
know if they do not. BTW, let us know of any other improvements that
could be made to make repetitive tasks simpler.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi