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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