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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) | |
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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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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index c9f30e5..0df8399 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 f1c3e7b..a16a382 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 |