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Re: GDB 8.2.90 available for testing
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- Cc: palves at redhat dot com, brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:45:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: GDB 8.2.90 available for testing
- References: <20190227055112.4A5E782D7B@joel.gnat.com> <835zt3kbjf.fsf@gnu.org> <a1b789a8-160c-824f-592a-f7b59c7072ff@redhat.com> <87k1hae23l.fsf@tromey.com>
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:44:46 -0700
>
> Some of the odd behavior I do see seems to predate any of these changes.
> With the system gdb on Fedora 28 and 29 I can:
>
> (gdb) tui enable
> (gdb) print 23
> $1 = 23
> (gdb) ... press Enter a a few times
>
> Here the subsequent prompts aren't seen and the output just looks like
>
> $2 = 23
> $3 = 23
> ...
The above is not odd, IMO, or at least I'm used to it when I use the
TUI: in that configuration GDB minimizes what it displays in the
command window. For example, if you repeatedly type "n <Enter>", the
command window appears not to change at all, because the last command
overwrites the previous one on the screen. I regard this as a
feature, which allows me to see the most of the interaction, without
wasting screen estate to show redundant content.