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Build Identifier: 20090920-1017 Whenever I suggest others to use Eclipse/CDT/CDI for their debugging needs, I get a lot of complaints about the "unusable console". Power users are quite used to type commands in a gdb console for special stuff. Some of them have used gdb directly for years, or a different GUI like Insight/gdb. They often have little snippets of gdb commands somewhere in a notes.txt, that get pasted to the console over and over. Of course, this is nothing that is needed by novices, but experienced users are common in the embedded world :-) The biggest complaints concerning the console in Eclipse are: * no command history (scrolling up through previous commands) * no command repetition with the Return key * no prompt (as a visual sign that a command has finished), see Bug 78368 * no protocol file (to save commands and output for later processing) * no aliases (?) * no auto completion for variable names or other stuff As far as I can see there were no enhancements in these areas with DSF. (Correct me if I'm wrong) So it wouldn't help to switch to DSF/gdb. We discussed that on cdt-dev, there are already some patches available by Giuseppe MONTALTO [giuseppe.montalto@st.com], see topic "Future of debugger console" started 2010-02-24 Reproducible: Always
There's a lot that can be implemented separately from the normal GDB CLI; for instance, GDB exposes enough support to implement the exact same tab completion, by using -interpreter-exec console "complete partly-typed \"command\"" I do not believe a front end can exactly imitate the automatic re-execution of commands with <enter>. GDB has internal state about whether the last command is safe to repeat. But defaulting to repetition wouldn't be all that bad.
Hi all, We have implemented command history and auto completion in our product, and now I found this tracker. What is the status of the proposed patch? It is available? I'd like to compare it with our work, and, if is it useful, we could try to contribute. Best regards, Stefano
(In reply to comment #2) > We have implemented command history and auto completion in our product Nice! > What is the status of the proposed > patch? It is available? I'd like to compare it with our work, and, if is it > useful, we could try to contribute. The current plan is to take a different approach and have GDB provide a separate CLI that Eclipse can hook to. That way, all intelligent console features will be handled by GDB but available to Eclipse. You can follow the discussion here: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-07/msg00525.html I'm hoping that such an approach will provide more than command-history and auto-completion. I'm thinking of: Readline features (in-line editing of commands) Repeat last command Smart Prompt Queries This would of course only work using a GDB that supports this new feature. Your contribution would still be useful for older GDBs but also as a solution until that other one is available (which is not garanteed).
We're making progress on a full console. A new patch has been posted for GDB: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00067.html I will provide a CDT patch using that GDB support.
(In reply to Marc Khouzam from comment #4) > We're making progress on a full console. A new patch has been posted for > GDB: > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00067.html The GDB support has been committed to GDB's master branch: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-06/msg00345.html We are continuing the work in CDT as part of: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62920/
I have posted a cleaned-up version of the first part of this solution at https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62920/ This version puts the full GDB console in the existing Console view. Review https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/77986/ moves the full GDB console to its own view. The patch currently works but needs cleanup.
Note that in https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62920/25/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBBackend_7_12.java I've explicitly disabled the new console for Windows (see GDBBackend_7_12#isFullGdbConsoleSupported()). It would be nice if someone looked into it to see what is needed to make it work. The problem to fix is most probably in CDT's PTY support for Windows. Specifically, when the new GDBBackend_7_12#createPty() calls PTY#validateSlaveName(), the method throws an exception on Windows. That would be the starting point for an investigation.
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/79632
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New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/80745
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(In reply to Eclipse Genie from comment #35) > New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/83628 This was a mistake and was abandoned.
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*** Bug 283661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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The lion-share of this feature was released in 9.2. Some improvements are being contributed for 9.3. From now one let's use new bugs for any improvements.
