Re: GUD octave support

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Dec-2007, Nick Roberts wrote:

|  > | The advantage of using something like:
|  > | 
|  > | ^Z^ZFILENAME:LINENO
|  > | 
|  > | is that it is unambiguous, as Octave would not normally output ^Z^Z and
|  > | unlikely to change, so matching the regexp won't break.
|  > 
|  > OK, I'd consider a patch.  I think some other option name like
|  > --gud-mode would make more sense than --fullname.
| 
| I don't wan't to quibble about the option name except to note that other
| applications such as DDD, could use such output, and indeed already do in the
| case of GDB.

Does it even have to be a command-line option?  Could it instead be a
function to call to set the display style for filenames in Octave's
debugging mode?

jwe