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Re: prompt in console window
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: prompt in console window
- From: Keith Seitz <kseitz at firetalk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:42:03 -0700
- CC: insight at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Firetalk Communications, Inc
- References: <B56E607C.131F%jingham@apple.com>
Jim Ingham wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> >
> > The trick that Insight uses to turn this off is "set height 0", which
> > tells gdb that the window height is zero lines high. This can be
> > overridden by setting it to some number, but I just tried it in a recent
> > snapshot, and it did exactly what I thought it would: it works as
> > expected, but the message "---Type <return>..." appears in the
> > controlling terminal, not in the console window. (Which reminds me, why
> > haven't we closed stdout???)
>
> Because we still haven't gotten Tom's hack to launch the inferior in an
> XTerm into the sources. So we leave stdout & stdin for the inferior to use.
> Using the console for this is not good, since it is a Tk text widget, and
> doesn't understand all the coolo junk you can do to terminals...
>
> Maybe somebody who is still working on Insight can just slide this in and
> see if it breaks.
Argh! I forgot about that... See what happens when you write
non-interactive software for a while? :-)
Keith
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