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

[Pedro Alves]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 18:41:11, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 18:12:03, Doug Evans wrote:
> > If there's general favorability of this I'll work on a patch.

To be clear, I meant to say that I do favor a way to have a
more descriptive prompt, however it ends up implemented.  I'd be
fine with python, or whatever.

> This was something that had occured to be before as well when
> I got tired of doing "info threads" while working on non-stop. 
> 
> This is what I was using at one point.  It added a PS1 style
> formatting to the gdb command, so I could do
> 
> (gdb) set prompt (\\p \\T: \\S)
> 
> And have the prompt show up as:
> 
>  (1 Thread 0x7ffff7fd36e0 (LWP 12690): stopped) 
> 
> or, ...
> 
>  (1 Thread 0x7ffff7fd36e0 (LWP 12690): running) 
> 
> etc.
> 

-- 
Pedro Alves