Feature request: please support frame and many windows

[kgfly]

Comparing to Emacs default gud gdb, 2 features are missing for realgud gdb debug:

1. Frame. In Emacs default gud gdb, it is: menu -> Gud -> GDB Frame. This is a very useful feature when you have 2+ monitors. You can view stuffs in different Windows, side by side, in 2+ monitors. Eg

Frame is a clear win for Emacs over Vim/Vscode, since they are never ever able to support frame, which are across multiple monitors.

2. Many windows. There already 2 other active issues for it.
   Multiple windows with context information #219
   How hard would it be for us to get an equivalent of gdb-many-windows? #99

3. Similar feature request for future LLDB :)

[rocky]

What to try your had at porting this? There are a lot of people who I am sure would want something like this. It is not something I am personally going to do, but this is an open source project so anyone is free to contribute.

[kgfly]

I am new to Emacs :) I will start to think about it once I am familiar with lisp enough.

[rocky]

No problem - this can wait until you get up to speed. And it is an excellent way to learn Emacs Lisp at the time - you are welcome!

[813gan]

I think that managing window layouts should be handled by buffer manager like perspective-el rather rg itself.

[rocky]

Ok. Is there a way to decouple this with realgud as an addon?

Also the other day I saw 0blayout. Are there others?

[813gan]

Are there others?

eyebrowse and probably many others, like with everything in emacs.

Is there a way to decouple this with realgud as an addon?

I'm not sure if i understand.
I didnt do any research but IMO implementation would look like it:

• Adding defcustom realgud-create-layout-function, defcustom realgud-switch-to-realgud-frame-layout-function, defcustom realgud-rollback-layout-function
• Creating some default values for more suitable/popular managers
• Creating smart function that detects which manager is available and sets default values for customs form first bullet

If it's possible we wouldnt have any hard dependency on any manager and it would be hackable at user side.

Maybe in future i would take a look, now locals have higher priority for me.

[813gan]

Are there others?

https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el#similar-packages