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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,
		Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>,
	gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: More descriptive prompt [was Re: Process exit in 	multi-process, and   gdb's selected thread.]
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090224182645.GA19279@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e394668d0902241012n458775c5s9e7ba9187209764@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:12:03AM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> 2) Provide a way to let a function dynamically compute the prompt.
>    Maybe something like "set prompt %p(my_python_function_to_compute_prompt)".

Maybe define a new fake command for hooking, similar to hook-stop?
define hook-prompt
  set prompt "(gdb $promptcount++) "
end

Except of course the CLI can't manipulate strings usefully.  So you'd
have to do it in Python.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-24 18:12 Doug Evans
2009-02-24 18:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-02-24 18:41 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-24 19:09   ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-25 17:41   ` Joel Brobecker
2009-02-25 17:49     ` Doug Evans
2009-02-25 17:59       ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-02-25 18:52     ` More descriptive prompt Tom Tromey
2009-02-25 19:00       ` Doug Evans
2009-02-25 19:42         ` Tom Tromey

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