Re: prompt in console window

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

Nicholas,

Control-C actually means copy in the console window, as God intended :-)
However, wiring up the stop button so that it would also interrupt macros
might not be a bad idea...  Or using Control-. or escape are other good
options.  

Remember also that in most GUI applications, Control-C does not generate a
SIGINT, since the GUI wants to handle all the key sequences itself.  So to
interrupt a macro while it is running, gdb would have to be giving control
periodically back to the GUI.  Don't know whether this is true or not...

Jim 

> Hmm... perhaps I can ask an easier question.  The only reason that I wanted
> to get the prompt_for_continue prompt back was that I wanted a way to stop
> a gdb macro (the kind that are defined in the .gdbinit file) that had
> started running, in case it was taking too long and I didn't care about the
> rest of the output.  With the command-line gdb, you could type Ctrl-C at
> that prompt to stop whatever was running, including a macro.  Would it be
> easier (and more helpful to the rest of the world) to get Ctrl-C working in
> the console window instead of the unnecessary prompt?