Re: [Cgdb-devel] CTRL + T

[Bob R. <bob...@co...>]

That sounds good to me.=20

Bobby

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 05:52:43PM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> Does that seem complete?  I'm trying to move away from hard-coded
> key-bindings to a more functional description.
>=20
> - Peter
>=20
> 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
> --=20
> Peter D. Kovacs <pe...@ko...>