Re: [Cgdb-devel] CTRL + T

[Peter K. <pe...@ko...>]

Okay, then basically we need 3 things:
    1. TTY toggle - shows and hids the TTY window
    2. TTY focus - if the tty is on the screen, sets the focus.
    3. restart TTY - create a new pseudo-terminal and issue the tty
                     command.

Does that seem complete?  I'm trying to move away from hard-coded
key-bindings to a more functional description.

- Peter

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 05:43:58PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Here's the deal. gdb outputs its data via stdout and the debugged
> program's date via stdout. So cgdb really has no way of knowing which
> output is from gdb and which is from the debugged program.=20
>=20
> So, in order to distinguish between the 2, cgdb uses gdb's tty feature
> which tells gdb to use the tty specified for all input and output of
> the debugged program. That way cgdb reads the debugged programs output
> via the tty specified and gdb's output via stdout.
>=20
> So, the Control-T command actually tells cgdb to open a new tty ( ex.
> /dev/pts/3). Then it issues the command to gdb ( tty /dev/pts/3 ). So,
> if something is wrong with the tty, the user can just get another one.
>=20
> The T command actually is just a GUI command. It says, I want to look at
> all the input and output to gdb in a new window. Actually, the only way
> currently to give input to the program, is through the T command. All
> it does is says, write all data typed in this window to the tty instead
> of gdb's stdin.

--=20
Peter D. Kovacs <pe...@ko...>