Re: prompt in console window

[Keith Seitz <kseitz@firetalk.com>]

Jim Ingham wrote:
> 
> Keith,
> 
> >
> > The trick that Insight uses to turn this off is "set height 0", which
> > tells gdb that the window height is zero lines high. This can be
> > overridden by setting it to some number, but I just tried it in a recent
> > snapshot, and it did exactly what I thought it would: it works as
> > expected, but the message "---Type <return>..." appears in the
> > controlling terminal, not in the console window. (Which reminds me, why
> > haven't we closed stdout???)
> 
> Because we still haven't gotten Tom's hack to launch the inferior in an
> XTerm into the sources.  So we leave stdout & stdin for the inferior to use.
> Using the console for this is not good, since it is a Tk text widget, and
> doesn't understand all the coolo junk you can do to terminals...
> 
> Maybe somebody who is still working on Insight can just slide this in and
> see if it breaks.

Argh! I forgot about that... See what happens when you write
non-interactive software for a while? :-)

Keith
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