Re: [PATCH 2/2] [gdb/tui] Show focus window in status line

[Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova <ahajkova@redhat.com>]

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On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 4:48 AM Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> wrote:

> The focused window is highlighting by using active-border-kind instead of
> border-kind.
>
> But if the focused window is the cmd window (which is an unboxed window),
> then
> no highlighting is done, and it's not obvious from looking at the screen
> which
> window has the focus.  Instead, you have to notice the absence of
> highlighting
> on boxed windows, and then infer that the focus is on the unboxed window.
>
> That approach stops working if there are multiple unboxed windows.
>
> Likewise if highlighting is switched off by setting active-border-kind to
> the
> same value as border-kind.
>
> Make it more explicit which window has the focus by mentioning it in the
> status
> window, like so:
> ...
> native process 8282 (src) In: main                      L7    PC: 0x400525
> ...
>
> Tested on x86_64-linux.
> ---
> I can confirm it works for ppc64le Fedora Rawhide, the (src) is neatly
> there. Causes no regressions.
>