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Re: Colors in gdb

On 1/20/2013 10:13 AM, Matt Rice wrote:

maybe i'm old in not liking the idea of making these work with the
standard 'print' command, because the escape sequences are terminal
type dependent, which is IMO fine for a prompt set by a gdbinit, but
less so for a pretty printer distributed with a library...
this opinion is only strengthened by considering a std::string
containing an escape sequence.


I strongly dislike ANY color stuff creeping into gdb output. Color
stuff is a big menace when stuff is saved to files, or pasted and
emailed etc etc.

i'm fairly steadfast that just having random escape sequences embedded
in pretty printers as i implemented it is entirely the wrong thing to
do, and we need some level of indirection that can be set in .gdbinit
that pretty printers can query

I agree

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