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To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,         Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: More descriptive prompt
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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:52:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20090225174126.GO3948@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed\, 25 Feb 2009 09\:41\:26 -0800")
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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> This is what I was using at one point.  It added a PS1 style
>> formatting to the gdb command, so I could do
>> 
>> (gdb) set prompt (\\p \\T: \\S)

Joel> Sounds like a useful idea to me. I'm torn between a python approach
Joel> and Pedro's approach. Pedro's approach might be seen as less powerful,
Joel> since one cannot extend the list of available escape sequences without
Joel> rebuilding GDB.  But I think it has the advantage of being simple
Joel> to implement and simple to use.

One could also write a Python hook, and then implement the PS1-style
substitution idea in Python :-)

Tom