Grouping nodes

[radare]

Merging two or more nodes from the ascii art graph would be very useful, the idea behind this feature consists in the following:

• Add a key to toggle node compactness.
• We want to have more than one group
• Maybe we can just tag each block with a keyword and assign a random color to every tag to print the block box.
• Then add a key to group/ungroup all blocks with the same tag as the currently selected one.
• We can automatically add those tags to entry/exit/math/loop/...
• Graph should be relayouted after the grouping operation happens.
• Grouped nodes can have more than one in and out edges

[ret2libc]

I think we should delay this. I won't be able to do it soon.

[radare]

Moved to 1.0

[radare]

We can use the 'T' and 'F' keys to merge the TRUE and FALSE nodes to the current one. and maybe use U to undo the operation

[alvarofe]

'U' is already use for redo seek

[radare]

F was also taken for the trackflags thing :(

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[radare]

I have an idea for this and will be easier than i though... but not today.moving to 1.2

[XVilka]

@cyanpencil please check this one too, if you have an idea how to implement this quickly. If not - then I think you already have more than enough.

[radare]

maybe good to have some feedback from @xarkes because that may be good to be supported in Cutter too. We can manually merge basic blocks in the analysis information. so maybe this is a solution, but this will affect more things than just the way we display the graph. So i would prefer to make this thing just happen in visual, and be able to save/restore graph layouts (and merged/grouped) nodes)

[ret2libc]

This issue has been moved from radareorg/radare2 to radareorg/ideas as we are trying to clean our backlog and this issue has probably been created a long while ago. This is an effort to help contributors understand what are the actionable items they can work on, prioritize issues better and help users find active/duplicated issues more easily. If this is not an enhancement/improvement/general idea but a bug, feel free to ask for re-transfer to main repo. Thanks for your understanding and contribution with this issue.

[XVilka]

@karliss you might be interested in this issue long term.