Re: More descriptive prompt [was Re: Process exit in multi-process, and gdb's selected thread.]

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>]

> 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)

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

-- 
Joel