Re: [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI

Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-04T17:37:30Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 08:01:49 -0700
>
> Eli> . The default foreground color used for addresses, blue, is too dark
> Eli> when the terminal's background is black. Maybe we should change to
> Eli> magenta, which should look OK on both dark and light backgrounds.
>
> For me magenta is even darker. Setting the intensity to bold might be
> more acceptable?

Still too dark. I guess we will need to leave this to personal
customizations.

> Eli> And one more issue, only tangentially related: if I put on my
> Eli> ~/.gdbinit settings that customize style, older versions of GDB
> Eli> complain when they start up, because they don't know about styles. Is
> Eli> there any way of conditioning scripting commands on the GDB version,
> Eli> or some other way of avoiding such problems?
>
> Nothing built in, this is a longstanding issue when adding new settings
> to gdb.

What do you think about the idea to add a convenience variable that
would provide the GDB version?