GDB BoF notes - GNU Cauldron 2023

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> writes:

Pedro> - Revisiting defaults

Pedro>   - Can we turn history saving on by default?  Maybe default to
Pedro>     history on home dir by default, too (~/.gdb_history).  That would
Pedro>     align us with bash.

Maybe some XDG directory?

Anyway +1 for this from me.

Pedro>   - Can we disable pagination by default?  Surprisingly, no one in the
Pedro>     room expressed that they like pagination on.

I leave it on but I can't say I really like it.  Mostly I suppose it's a
distraction and I just haven't bothered changing it.

Pedro>       "(gdb) pipe GDB_COMMAND | less"

I wonder if "with pagination on" works too.

Anyway +1 on this too.


Some other defaults to consider:

set print object on
set breakpoint pending on
set print pretty on

The last one is iffy I guess, maybe people like the compact output.  The
first two I think I've had to tell many people about over the years.

Tom