Re: Recent changes in gdb-ui.el

[Kim F. Storm]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  > I have just installed changed to properly support multiple overlay arrows.
>  > 
>  > [Some packages attempts to do this by making overlay-arrow-position
>  > buffer local, but that doesn't really work well with the redisplay
>  > code, as it may fail to notice changes to an overlay arrow in some
>  > cases.]
>  > 
>  > To do so, create a new variable similar to overlay-arrow-position,
>  > e.g.  gdb-asm-overlay-arrow-position and add it to the new variable
>  > overlay-arrow-variable-list; like this:
>  > 
>  >  (push 'gdb-asm-overlay-arrow-position overlay-arrow-variable-list)
>  > 
>  > Then you can use gdb-asm-overlay-arrow-position just like the
>  > overlay-arrow-position variable.
> 
> I've committed this change which seems to work fine on a graphical display but
> not on a text-only terminal. Roughly, I've taken code from gud-display-line
> and put it in gdb-assembler-custom. In this manner, I've created a variable
> called gdb-overlay-arrow-string (set to "=>") but this doesn't have the
> meaning given to overlay-arrow-string.

I forgot to mention this:

You should use something like this to associate a string with
a custom overlay-arrow variable:

    (put 'gdb-overlay-arrow-position 'overlay-arrow-string "=>")

> 
> On a related note, I see that the overlay arrow is only represented as a
> string on a text-only terminal. It seems to me that, now fringes can be
> toggled, this should be extended to graphical displays where there is no
> left-hand fringe.

Yes, that makes sense.  I will look at it.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk