[Adding the cgdb maintainer to the CC.]
On 1/20/2020 9:18 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > On 20/01/2020 12:41, Takashi Yano wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:06:46 +0100 >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jan 20 11:50, Takashi Yano wrote: >>>> - For programs which does not work properly with pseudo console, >>>> disable_pcon in environment CYGWIN is introduced. If disable_pcon >>>> is set, pseudo console support is disabled. >>> Oh well, do we really need that? >> >> This is, for example, needed to solve the issue reported in >> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00147.html. >> >> I looked into this problem, and found that cgdb read output of >> gdb from pty master and write it to ncurses. The output from >> pty master includes a lot of escape sequences which are generated >> by pseudo console, however, ncurses does not pass-through them >> and shows garbages. This is the cause of that issue. >> >> cgdb is the only program do such things so far, however, there >> may be more programs which do not expect escape sequences read >> from pty. >> >> There is no way to control pseudo console not to generate >> escape sequences, therefore, I proposed this patch. >> > > I think this may actually be an issue with cgdb being old. > > The latest gdb enables "output styling" using ANSI escape sequences by > default, > but our cgdb can't handle them? > > See: https://github.com/cgdb/cgdb/issues/211
