Re: [binutils-gdb] Style the gdb welcome message

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@wdc.com>]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Andrew Burgess wrote:

> > I'm curious to hear what others think.  In the absence of comments I'll
> > remove it sometime before 9.1, I think.  Or I'll approve a patch to
> > do so.
> 
> What this might mean is that if ~/.gdbinit contains only (or starts
> with) commands that produce no output, for example 'set style enabled
> off' then these would be processed before GDB printed the welcome
> message.

 Thank you all who responded for your input.

 As this is a matter of a human interface I realise that personal 
perception will be very different among various people, from positive, 
through neutral to disturbing.  The classic single-colour interface is 
uniform and does not, in my personal experience, cause any disturbance 
or distraction to me.  Other people may appreciate the highlighting.

 I think a way to move forward might be to borrow from other GNU 
projects, such as GCC and coreutils, and have an environment variable 
defined called GDB_COLORS, analogously to GCC_COLORS or LS_COLORS, and 
make GDB interpret it ahead of its usual initialisation files (which 
could optionally override the environment settings).

 Thoughts?

  Maciej