Colors in gdb split

[sakhnik]

Colors in gdb split

[sakhnik]

That's a good idea! To support colours, we just need to skip escape sequences when parsing the debugger output in scm.py before feeding it to the regexp matchers. Would you be able to implement this and create a pull request?

[sakhnik]

All right, I tried your code and realized what happens. GDB is actually run in a PTY by an auxiliary program gdbproxy.py. It conceals service commands issued by the plugin from the user. Basically, it cuts everything between server info breakpoints and (gdb) out, while letting through everything else.
Having changed the prompt, we left the proxy in the closed state forever.

Reference:

nvim-gdb/lib/gdbproxy.py

Line 18 in da5819e

PROMPT = b"\n(gdb) "

There is a bug in this program that it stays filtering forever. It should probably stop filtering after some timeout.

We could potentially extend the terminator PROMPT to skip escape sequences when looking for a match. Or teach the program to adapt to the current prompt more intelligently.

[sakhnik]

@mightymicha, I solved this issue using gdb.prompt_hook to mark the prompt. Now the program doesn't care about the shape of the GDB prompt assuming no one overrides the hook.
Please feel free to reopen if it doesn't work for you.