Re: [Cgdb-users] Color problem

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

Mike Mueller [mmu...@cs...] wrote:
> This is unusual.  First, you should know the current version only
> supports black background terminals.  We're currently rewriting to
> get a more robust interface, which will eventually be 1.0, but this
> is still a few months off.

Yes, I know that. I will wait patiently for it. I use plain old
gdb now, vidbg if I really want to see something, or even DDD on
occasions.

> Anyway, for the problem you're having, what kind of code are you
> debugging?  You said the source shows up in white on black, right?
> If it is C, C++, or Ada, it should be syntax highlighted in very
> eye-pleasing colors. :)  Perhaps this is a bug in CGDB?

Yes, I can see the syntax highlighting when TERM is set to a
color terminal (xterm, xtermc, rxvt, etc). The program is in C/C++.
But the problem I described is there from startup of cgdb.
When TERM is set to vt100, then the source code is shown in
white on black. However, there is no current line indicator.

> Are you doing this over a telnet or rsh/ssh session?  That also
> throws some things into the mix, I believe...

My local machine is Sun Sparc running solaris. I rlogin into
the linux machines. I also tried to open an xterm from the linux 
machines back to the local machine and then work on that window.
It has the same problem. I tend to do a lot of these remotely,
so I believe when cgdb does work, I am going to like it.
I went home and installed cgdb on my Debian linux machine, and 
it came up ok.

However, I have no problems with mutt (which also shows color).

Thanks for the reply.


James.