More descriptive prompt [was Re: Process exit in multi-process, and gdb's selected thread.]

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:12:03AM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> 2) Provide a way to let a function dynamically compute the prompt.
>    Maybe something like "set prompt %p(my_python_function_to_compute_prompt)".

Maybe define a new fake command for hooking, similar to hook-stop?
define hook-prompt
  set prompt "(gdb $promptcount++) "
end

Except of course the CLI can't manipulate strings usefully.  So you'd
have to do it in Python.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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