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From: Bob R. <bob...@co...> - 2005-06-17 23:47:24
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Benjamin Faden wrote: > Hello Bob, Mike, or both, > > I just recently got cgdb to try and i think it is really useful for > when you only have putty to debug. I think the syntax color still > makes it more useful then the gdb tui mode. I only have one problem > with it at the moment, but maybe I'm just missing something. > > The green arrow that points to the current line of execution in the > source window can be quite far away from code thats a couple tabs in > making it hard to see which line of code it is pointing to. Is there > a way to have it highlight that entire line instead of just pointing a > green arrow to the line? If not, does this sound like a good idea to > you? I think it would make it much easier to cruise through the > source. If i overlooked an option could you let me know? Otherwize I > think it would be a really neat feature to implement. CGDB currently doesn't do this. Both Mike and I are hesitant to add more functionality to CGDB at the moment because the original data structures chosen make it very difficult to modify the program. However, your change seems like it could be rather simplistic and it will be a long time before I can spare the time necessary to do major surgery on CGDB. What did you have in mind as far as highlighting? Would you like the line to reverse all the colors? Do you have an example? Thanks, Bob Rossi |
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From: Bob R. <bo...@br...> - 2005-06-20 13:25:36
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:46:40PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote:
> This is definitely doable, I'll check into it and get back to you.
Hi all,
In case anyone's interested, Mike committed this change to CVS. It will
be a few weeks before I get another release out because I'm extremely
busy and I also want to package readline with CGDB. So Benjamin, if you
want to try that feature right away, try out CVS, it's stable enough to
use.
Here are the features mike told me about, since it's still uncommented.
:set arrowstyle=3Dshort (default)
The usual little arrow that we provide
:set arrowstyle=3Dlong
An arrow that extends from the line number out to the start of the=20
given line. Not too obtrusive but easier to follow.
:set arrowstyle=3Dhighlight
No actual arrow drawn. The line is drawn in black-on-green
text, so the entire line is highlighted across the screen. Very
obtrusive.
The short version of arrowstyle is "as". So, "set as=3Dlong".
Just in case anyone's interested, "long" is my personal favorite and is
going to go into my .cgdb/cgdbrc for now :)
Thanks Mike!
Bobby
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From: Benjamin F. <bf...@gm...> - 2005-06-20 17:37:17
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I'll compile it next time i get a chance. thanks for the change -ben On 6/20/05, Bob Rossi <bo...@br...> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:46:40PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > This is definitely doable, I'll check into it and get back to you. >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > In case anyone's interested, Mike committed this change to CVS. It will > be a few weeks before I get another release out because I'm extremely > busy and I also want to package readline with CGDB. So Benjamin, if you > want to try that feature right away, try out CVS, it's stable enough to > use. >=20 > Here are the features mike told me about, since it's still uncommented. >=20 > :set arrowstyle=3Dshort (default) > The usual little arrow that we provide > :set arrowstyle=3Dlong > An arrow that extends from the line number out to the start of the > given line. Not too obtrusive but easier to follow. > :set arrowstyle=3Dhighlight > No actual arrow drawn. The line is drawn in black-on-green > text, so the entire line is highlighted across the screen. Very > obtrusive. >=20 > The short version of arrowstyle is "as". So, "set as=3Dlong". >=20 > Just in case anyone's interested, "long" is my personal favorite and is > going to go into my .cgdb/cgdbrc for now :) >=20 > Thanks Mike! > Bobby >=20 >=20 > |
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From: Benjamin F. <bf...@gm...> - 2005-06-17 23:57:28
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I guess reversing the colors for the line would work. Anything to make it easier to know which line is currently being executed. I usually find it hard to line up where markers are pointing to when sourcecode tabbing gets too large. -ben On 6/17/05, Bob Rossi <bob...@co...> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Benjamin Faden wrote: > > Hello Bob, Mike, or both, > > > > I just recently got cgdb to try and i think it is really useful for > > when you only have putty to debug. I think the syntax color still > > makes it more useful then the gdb tui mode. I only have one problem > > with it at the moment, but maybe I'm just missing something. > > > > The green arrow that points to the current line of execution in the > > source window can be quite far away from code thats a couple tabs in > > making it hard to see which line of code it is pointing to. Is there > > a way to have it highlight that entire line instead of just pointing a > > green arrow to the line? If not, does this sound like a good idea to > > you? I think it would make it much easier to cruise through the > > source. If i overlooked an option could you let me know? Otherwize I > > think it would be a really neat feature to implement. >=20 > CGDB currently doesn't do this. Both Mike and I are hesitant to add more > functionality to CGDB at the moment because the original data structures > chosen make it very difficult to modify the program. >=20 > However, your change seems like it could be rather simplistic and it > will be a long time before I can spare the time necessary to do major > surgery on CGDB. What did you have in mind as far as highlighting? Would > you like the line to reverse all the colors? Do you have an example? >=20 > Thanks, > Bob Rossi > |
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From: Bob R. <bo...@br...> - 2005-06-18 00:18:38
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:56:53PM -0400, Benjamin Faden wrote: > I guess reversing the colors for the line would work. Anything to > make it easier to know which line is currently being executed. I > usually find it hard to line up where markers are pointing to when > sourcecode tabbing gets too large. Let me think about this a little bit. I'm sure we can get out another release with this feature in it. I was just using mutt, and it highlights the line red, by making the backround color red on the current line. Maybe I'll look into how that would look. Anyone have any ideas? Mike, you usually have better configuration names than I do. What do you think a good config option name for this feature would be? Thanks, Bob Rossi |
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From: Mike M. <mi...@su...> - 2005-06-18 00:47:18
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This is definitely doable, I'll check into it and get back to you. BTW, you don't have to CC me, I'm on the mailing list. :) --=20 Mike Mueller mmu...@cs... On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:18:30PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:56:53PM -0400, Benjamin Faden wrote: > > I guess reversing the colors for the line would work. Anything to > > make it easier to know which line is currently being executed. I > > usually find it hard to line up where markers are pointing to when > > sourcecode tabbing gets too large. >=20 > Let me think about this a little bit. I'm sure we can get out another > release with this feature in it. I was just using mutt, and it > highlights the line red, by making the backround color red on the > current line. Maybe I'll look into how that would look. >=20 > Anyone have any ideas? >=20 > Mike, you usually have better configuration names than I do. What do you > think a good config option name for this feature would be? >=20 > Thanks, > Bob Rossi |
