From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA 0/4] Improve "show style", use style in "help" and "apropos".
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1560891478.8865.5.camel@skynet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1560891176.8865.3.camel@skynet.be>
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 22:52 +0200, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 14:46 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > > "Philippe" == Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> writes:
> > > >
> > > > (gdb) | with pagination off -- apropos -v breakpoint | less
> >
> > Philippe> Effectively, 'pagination off' and event worse 'style enabled off'
> > Philippe> make it significantly more difficult to see where apropos -v
> > Philippe> starts the doc of a new command.
> >
> > Maybe this command should still use styling? I wonder.
>
> Wondering ...
>
> At shell level, coloring seems to be disabled when piped.
> E.g.
> $ ls -l
> .... files with some colors
> $ ls -l | cat
> .... same output, but no colors
> $
ls has an option to control coloring.
ls -l --color=always|cat
will still be colored.
So, we might add an option -style [on|off] to the GDB pipe_command,
if we believe it should output styling sequence.
Philippe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-18 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-31 13:19 Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 13:19 ` [RFA 1/4] Add highlight style, title style, fputs_highlighted. Improve 'show style' Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 20:10 ` Tom Tromey
2019-06-01 8:47 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-06-03 14:21 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-31 13:19 ` [RFA 4/4] Document in NEWS and gdb.texinfo the "help", "apropos" and "show style" changes Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-31 13:19 ` [RFA 2/4] Improve usability and/or readibility of help and apropos output Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 20:22 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-31 13:19 ` [RFA 3/4] Update tests following changes to "help" and "apropos" Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 20:34 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-31 20:35 ` [RFA 0/4] Improve "show style", use style in " Tom Tromey
2019-06-18 13:09 ` Pedro Alves
2019-06-18 16:04 ` Tom Tromey
2019-06-18 20:11 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-06-18 20:46 ` Tom Tromey
2019-06-18 20:53 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-06-18 20:58 ` Philippe Waroquiers [this message]
2019-06-18 22:40 ` Pedro Alves
2019-06-19 0:25 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-06-19 19:44 ` Tom Tromey
2019-06-19 19:26 ` Tom Tromey
2019-06-19 22:56 ` Pedro Alves
2019-06-20 14:21 ` Tom Tromey
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