Why is gdb's TUI so bad when you print to stdout?
Everything goes to hell when you do some printing!
Any idea, suggestion, tool, alternative UI or anything you use that can make this more comfortable?
(is it just because you are supposed to use emacs with it?)
May 2, 2026, 10:36 AM@ekaitz_zarraga
Yeah, use Emacs
May 2, 2026, 11:10 AM@ekaitz_zarraga
There are probably non-emacs UIs for gdb, there used to be ddd.
May 2, 2026, 11:29 AM@ekaitz_zarraga
> Why is gdb's TUI so bad
As an aside, the TUI of Sun's dbg was so terrible (you had to spell every command fully, without any completion), that it was the first nudge to push me towards gdb, and thus GNU.
Being able to type `n' instead of `next', having TAB completion and documentation/help; amazing!