More descriptive prompt

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> 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)

Joel> Sounds like a useful idea to me. I'm torn between a python approach
Joel> and Pedro's approach. Pedro's approach might be seen as less powerful,
Joel> since one cannot extend the list of available escape sequences without
Joel> rebuilding GDB.  But I think it has the advantage of being simple
Joel> to implement and simple to use.

One could also write a Python hook, and then implement the PS1-style
substitution idea in Python :-)

Tom