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| author | Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> | 2021-06-04 17:12:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> | 2021-07-02 16:31:20 +0100 |
| commit | 90b044ef102df5bf7929c71fc9465f23279eabdd (patch) | |
| tree | a65083f9f836ab2968a488fc9b259e874be55591 | |
| parent | 49910fd88dcd2ec3d0d9e56120ceb56a6a64b7b8 (diff) | |
| download | binutils-gdb-90b044ef102df5bf7929c71fc9465f23279eabdd.tar.gz | |
Document TUI improvements in the manual & NEWS
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
* NEWS: Add new "TUI Improvements" section and mention mouse
support and that unrecognized special keys are now passed to
GDB. Mention Python Window.click in the Python improvements
section.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* gdb.texinfo (TUI): <TUI Mouse Support>: New node/section.
Co-Authored-By: Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
Change-Id: I0d79a795d8ac561fd28cdc5184bff029ba28bc64
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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/NEWS | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 18 |
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index d1091792b26..6febad5ee7d 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2021-07-02 Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> + Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de> + + * NEWS: Add new "TUI Improvements" section and mention mouse + support and that unrecognized special keys are now passed to + GDB. Mention Python Window.click in the Python improvements + section. + 2021-07-01 Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> PR mi/15729 @@ -108,6 +108,18 @@ registers of a target. The precise requirements of this register feature are documented in the GDB manual. +* TUI improvements + + ** TUI windows now support mouse actions. The mouse wheel scrolls + the appropriate window. + + ** Key combinations that do not have a specific action on the + focused window are passed to GDB. For example, you now can use + Ctrl-Left/Ctrl-Right to move between words in the command window + regardless of which window is in focus. Previously you would + need to focus on the command window for such key combinations to + work. + * New commands set debug event-loop @@ -266,6 +278,10 @@ QMemTags gdb.BreakpointEvent rather than a gdb.StopEvent. The gdb.Breakpoint attached to the event will have type BP_CATCHPOINT. + ** Python TUI windows can now receive mouse click events. If the + Window object implements the click method, it is called for each + mouse click event in this window. + *** Changes in GDB 10 * There are new feature names for ARC targets: "org.gnu.gdb.arc.core" diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index c9f30e565e1..0df8399caa3 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2021-07-02 Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> + + * gdb.texinfo (TUI): <TUI Mouse Support>: New node/section. + 2021-06-25 Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> * gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Document new output format for 'info diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index f1c3e7ba847..a16a3825ebb 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -28387,6 +28387,7 @@ enable} or @kbd{C-x C-a}. @xref{TUI Commands, ,TUI Commands}, and * TUI Overview:: TUI overview * TUI Keys:: TUI key bindings * TUI Single Key Mode:: TUI single key mode +* TUI Mouse Support:: TUI mouse support * TUI Commands:: TUI-specific commands * TUI Configuration:: TUI configuration variables @end menu @@ -28676,6 +28677,23 @@ If @value{GDBN} was built with Readline 8.0 or later, the TUI SingleKey keymap will be named @samp{SingleKey}. This can be used in @file{.inputrc} to add additional bindings to this keymap. +@node TUI Mouse Support +@section TUI Mouse Support +@cindex TUI mouse support + +If the curses library supports the mouse, the TUI supports mouse +actions. + +The mouse wheel scrolls the appropriate window under the mouse cursor. + +The TUI itself does not directly support copying/pasting with the +mouse. However, on Unix terminals, you can typically press and hold +the @key{SHIFT} key on your keyboard to temporarily bypass +@value{GDBN}'s TUI and access the terminal's native mouse copy/paste +functionality (commonly, click-drag-release or double-click to select +text, middle-click to paste). This copy/paste works with the +terminal's selection buffer, as opposed to the TUI's buffer. + @node TUI Commands @section TUI-specific Commands @cindex TUI commands |