From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [gdb/cli] Document \001 and \002 usage for set prompt
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:47:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <865xfofzij.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250719061636.11460-1-tdevries@suse.de> (message from Tom de Vries on Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:16:36 +0200)
> From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:16:36 +0200
>
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> index 35b770f8138..0a2d34756eb 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
> @@ -27659,6 +27659,16 @@ or a prompt that does not.
> @item set prompt @var{newprompt}
> Directs @value{GDBN} to use @var{newprompt} as its prompt string henceforth.
>
> +For example, this will set a blue-colored ``(gdb)'' prompt:
> +
> +@smallexample
> +set prompt \001\033[0;34m\002(gdb)\001\033[0m\002
> +@end smallexample
> +
> +It uses ``\001'' and ``\002'' to begin and end a sequence of
> +non-printing characters, to make sure they're not counted in the string
> +length.
Please use @samp to quote \001 etc., not literal quotes.
OK with that nit fixed.
P.S. Does this work on MS-Windows console as well?
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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