Re: Display feature request: gud-overlay-arrow

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

> GUD currently points to the current line of the "selected frame" with the
> gud-overlay-arrow.  This might be the innermost frame, where execution stops
> which is called the "current frame", or it might be on higher in the stack
> for example after the GDB command "up" or "frame N" where N > 0.
>
> I would like to distinguish between the current frame and any other frame
> by making keeping the gud-overlay-arrow solid when the selected frame is
> the current frame and making it hollow (or different in some other way)
> otherwise i.e make its appearance depend on a variable's value.
>
> Is this possible?  Could it be a TODO item for the next release?

Can't you do that via the fringe-indicator-alist variable ?

I guess it would be easier to do if we had a "post-switch-buffer-hook" that
is called (after post-command-hook) whenever a new buffer is selected
in the command loop.

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