DAP UI integration?

[rohit-kumar-j]

DAP UI integration?

[RaafatTurki]

Such an interesting usecase!

AFAIK DAP clients (the debugger underneath) attaches to a running process and changes live memory values.
I'm unsure if this is the correct way to implement this but I think developing this feature require 2 essential parts:

• a method to reliably read the memory of the DAP-attached-process
• a performant way to re-read said memory everytime DAP UI changes a value

And I'm unsure on how to go about the 1st part

[rohit-kumar-j]

For the first part,

I think nvim-dap has not yet integrated this: mfussenegger/nvim-dap#331.
However vimspector has something similar (Although this is a work in progress)

[RaafatTurki]

Hmm I see
Is this a codelldb only feature or are there other DAP adapters that provide something similar?

[rohit-kumar-j]

I don't think such a feature is specific to lldb, but as of now it has been implemented in vimspector for lldb.
Cpp-tools is the other one that I know of, they have merged something like this directly into vscode as well.

[RaafatTurki]

hmm, as interesting as it is.
I don't have the knowledge to implement such capability into the plugin.
I'll say it's out of scope however a PR or a working draft would be a good starting point and are welcome.