Re: curses version of DDD

[Edward Peschko]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:15:39AM -0000, Arnaud Desitter wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Edward Peschko" <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.debugging.ddd.general
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 2:39 AM
> Subject: curses version of DDD
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> 
> >hey all,
> >
> >yes, I know it might be a contradiction in terms, but is there a
> >curses equivalent to ddd, or a curses mode of ddd?
> >
> >I can only debug my code over an ssh link, and don't have access to an
> >X-display. However, I'd like to use ddd because of its wide support
> >for different debuggers, as well as its display capabilities.
> 
> ddd is an X application, no way around it.

well, right, that's why I was looking for alternatives.

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> >
> >Am I out of luck? Or is there already a version like this out there
> >somewhere? And if not ddd, what would people suggest (aside from emacs)
> 
> Use gdb/dbx/... directly ? Or install an X server (on Windows, cygwin is the
> way to go).

I don't think that is a realistic 'alternative'. I want the ability to 
profile variables, etc... Everything the ddd does could be done with 
curses, its just a question of having the will/inclination to do so.

Of course, if there was a way of separating the code interfacing with the 
debugger from ddd proper (ie: the screen scraping that ddd does to interface
with ruby's debugger, dbx, etc... then I could probably port said code to 
vimscript and get a 'ddd' mode for vim.. but that might be a pretty hard chore.

Where does this code exist, anyways? How do you make a plugin for ddd for any 
given debugger?

Ed

 




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