From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 43038 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2018 13:37:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-testers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-testers-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 43008 invoked by uid 89); 29 Dec 2018 13:37:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: kwanyin.sergiodj.net Received: from kwanyin.sergiodj.net (HELO kwanyin.sergiodj.net) (158.69.185.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:37:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [binutils-gdb] Make ANSI terminal escape sequences work in TUI From: sergiodj+buildbot@sergiodj.net To: gdb-testers@sourceware.org Message-Id: <1d1d0bf76f3bc3056a1456e53c066f40ca4d0837@gdb-build> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:34:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2018-q4/txt/msg06162.txt.bz2 *** TEST RESULTS FOR COMMIT 1d1d0bf76f3bc3056a1456e53c066f40ca4d0837 *** Author: Tom Tromey Branch: master Commit: 1d1d0bf76f3bc3056a1456e53c066f40ca4d0837 Make ANSI terminal escape sequences work in TUI PR tui/14126 notes that ANSI terminal escape sequences don't affect the colors shown in the TUI. A simple way to see this is to try the extended-prompt example from the gdb manual. Curses does not pass escape sequences through to the terminal. Instead, it replaces non-printable characters with a visible representation, for example "^[" for the ESC character. This patch fixes the problem by adding a simple ANSI terminal sequence parser to gdb. These sequences are decoded and those that are recognized are turned into the appropriate curses calls. The curses approach to color handling is unusual and so there are some oddities in the implementation. Standard curses has no notion of the default colors of the terminal. So, if you set the foreground color, it is not possible to reset it -- you have to pick some other color. ncurses provides an extension to handle this, so this patch updates configure and uses it when available. Second, in curses, colors always come in pairs: you cannot set just the foreground. This patch handles this by tracking actually-used pairs of colors and keeping a table of these for reuse. Third, there are a limited number of such pairs available. In this patch, if you try to use too many color combinations, gdb will just ignore some color changes. Finally, in addition to limiting the number of color pairs, curses also limits the number of colors. This means that, when using extended 8- or 24-bit color sequences, it may be possible to exhaust the curses color table. I am very sour on the curses design now. I do not know how to write a test for this, so I did not. gdb/ChangeLog 2018-12-28 Tom Tromey PR tui/14126: * tui/tui.c (tui_enable): Call start_color and use_default_colors. * tui/tui-io.c (struct color_pair): New. (color_pair_map, last_color_pair, last_style): New globals. (tui_setup_io): Clean up color map when shutting down. (curses_colors): New constant. (get_color_pair, apply_ansi_escape): New functions. (tui_write): Rewrite. (tui_puts_internal): New function, from tui_puts. Add "height" parameter. (tui_puts): Use tui_puts_internal. (tui_redisplay_readline): Use tui_puts_internal. (_initialize_tui_io): New function. (color_map): New globals. (get_color): New function. * configure.ac: Check for use_default_colors. * config.in, configure: Rebuild.