Proposed changes to empty command handling in JDB

[Chris Plummer]

My thoughts were actually that integrating jline would result in too 
much disruption to the source, and also require a fair amount of 
documentation update, but I don't know enough about what would be 
involved with integrating jline to say for sure. It seems that just 
adding empty command support to the few commands where it would be 
useful would be much simpler, but you do also need to add a flag to 
enable it (I think you would need this for jline integration also).

Chris

On 8/21/21 2:46 PM, Jakob Cornell wrote:
> Well I let this thread go quiet for a few weeks, but I did want to 
> follow up on the new input we got in August.  It sounds like multiple 
> people are concerned about the cost of reviewing a change to JDB that 
> implements GDB's empty command handling, but a patch that adds Jline 
> line editing and history would be worth considering.
>
> I think I'll start looking into that change, and if I'm able to 
> prepare a patch we can have some people take a look.  If it's too much 
> to merge then I suppose I could keep it in a fork and benefit from the 
> work myself at least.  In the meantime, perhaps JBS 8271356 should be 
> closed, since the community isn't interested in the change.  If so, 
> somebody with access will need to do that.
>
> Jakob