From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Seitz To: Jim Ingham Cc: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: prompt in console window Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <3949156B.4553340B@firetalk.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00277.html 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 ..." 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 -- Why chat when you can Firetalk? Firetalk ID: Keith (10320) www.firetalk.com