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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>,
	 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	 gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA 0/4] Improve "show style", use style in "help" and "apropos".
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y31xe5r6.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32b0b61b-755a-0ca9-b854-3e9db5d781ea@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's	message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:40:23 +0100")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

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

Ouch.

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

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

I like this idea.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-19 19:26 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 3/4] Update tests following changes to "help" and "apropos" Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-31 20:34   ` 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 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
2019-06-19  0:25             ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-06-19 19:44               ` Tom Tromey
2019-06-19 19:26             ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2019-06-19 22:56               ` Pedro Alves
2019-06-20 14:21                 ` Tom Tromey

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