Insight and syntax highlighting

Insight and syntax highlighting

[Simon Sobisch]

GDB has quite nice syntax highlighting on the command line, either (very
seldom used) via GNU Source-highlight or via python pygments now.

Given the Insight documentation [1] it looks there isn't any feature
like that yet in Insight - is it?

It would be nice to have diassembler and source output highlighted.

... just asking, because I enjoy the pygments highlighting and because
the missing source highlighting is what people seem to take as biggest
"con" in DDD, a GDB frontend that (apart from its plugins and graphical
presentations) has a _similar_ look to Insight.

Simon

[1]:https://sourceware.org/insight/screenshots.php

Re: Insight and syntax highlighting

[Keith Seitz]

On 7/28/22 07:01, Simon Sobisch via Insight wrote:
> GDB has quite nice syntax highlighting on the command line, either (very
> seldom used) via GNU Source-highlight or via python pygments now.
> 
> Given the Insight documentation [1] it looks there isn't any feature
> like that yet in Insight - is it?

No, there isn't. All of the CLI-like functionality is independently
implemented in Insight. It does not (AFAIK) use a terminal to provide
CLI support.

> It would be nice to have diassembler and source output highlighted.

It would indeed! IIRC, someone submitted a patch to do source highlighting,
but they reneged when asked to "sign" the license agreement. [This isn't
required by Red Hat legal anymore.] Man, that must have been over ten
years ago. [about when I really stopped working on Insight]

Keith