[DIscussion] some thought about call a editor set the commands of breakpoints and tracepoints

Hui Zhu
2013-03-08T16:17:28Z

Hi,

I think a lot of people had gotten a problem is when you want change
the commands of breakpoints or tracepoints when the commands is
complicated. For example, maybe you just want to change one or two
lines inside the commands, you need re-input all of them. And if you
input something wrong, then all of commands that you input in before
will be droped.

Of course, you can use "save tracepoint xxx" "!vim xxx" "source xxx"
handle it. But it is still cumbersome.

So I thought why not let gdb call a editor set the commands of
breakpoints and tracepoints?
For example:
commands -e 1
Then editor come out, the original commands of 1 is inside there. You
can just change some lines in there to change the commands.

What do you think about it? Any comments is always welcome.

Thanks,
Hui