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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make format_pieces recognize the \e escape sequence
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 17:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8059848c4e76ccfb1d539b7eab0d33d9@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efiaguyd.fsf@tromey.com>

On 2018-05-17 11:31, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> writes:
> 
> Simon> I noticed that the printf command did not recognize the \e 
> escape
> Simon> sequence, used amongst other things to use colors:
> 
> Simon>   (gdb) printf "This is \e[32mgreen\e[m!\n"
> Simon>   Unrecognized escape character \e in format string.
> 
> Simon> This patch makes format_pieces recognize it, which makes that 
> command
> Simon> print the expected result in glorious color.
> 
> Thanks.  The patch looked reasonable to me.
> 
> Maybe this could be considered part of PR 14975.

Thanks for taking a look.  I changed the title of 14975 to make it a bit 
more general (not only about \x escape sequences) and added a reference 
to it in my patch, which is now pushed.

Simon


      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-17 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-17 14:36 Simon Marchi
2018-05-17 17:08 ` Tom Tromey
2018-05-17 17:23   ` Simon Marchi [this message]

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