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[cdt-dev] Future of debugger console
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Hi,
currently we are
using gdb/CDI for our target debugging. Well, at least some
people in our team use it. Whenever I suggest others to use Eclipse/CDT/CDI
for their debugging needs, I get a lot of complaints about the "unusable
console".
Power users are
quite used to type commands in a gdb console for special stuff. Some of them
have used gdb directly for years, or a different GUI like Insight/gdb. They
often have little snippets of gdb commands somewhere in a notes.txt, that get
pasted to the console over and over. Of course, this is nothing that is needed
by novices, but experienced users are common in the embedded world
:-)
The biggest
complaints concerning the console in Eclipse are:
- no command history
(scrolling up through previous commands)
- no command
repetition with the Return key
- no prompt (as a
visual sign that a command has finished)
- no protocol file
(to save commands and output for later processing)
- no aliases
(?)
- no auto completion
for variable names or other stuff
As far as I can see
there were no enhancements in these areas with DSF. (Correct me if I'm wrong) So
it wouldn't help to switch to DSF/gdb.
Are there any plans
to enhance the debugging console in the ways described?
Is there anybody
else here who sees the need for this?
All the
best, Achim
