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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>,
	Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA 0/4] Improve "show style", use style in "help" and "apropos".
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32b0b61b-755a-0ca9-b854-3e9db5d781ea@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1560891478.8865.5.camel@skynet.be>

On 6/18/19 9:57 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
>> 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.

Agreed.

In other words, this would let us pipe with style.  :-D

In addition, "set style enabled" could be made an auto-boolean
setting, with default "auto", enable styling iff outputting to
a terminal.  Then, "on" would force styling even if outputting
to a pipe.  This would let you force styling with:

 (gdb) with style enabled on -- | apropos -v breakpoint | less

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-18 22:40 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 3/4] Update tests following changes to " Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 20:34   ` Tom Tromey
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 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 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 20:35 ` [RFA 0/4] Improve "show style", use style in "help" and "apropos" 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
2019-06-18 22:40           ` Pedro Alves [this message]
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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