--skip-value-attr so it is possible to enable this extension alone

bin/rdebug-ide

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ options = OpenStruct.new(
   'dispatcher_port' => -1,
   'evaluation_timeout' => 10,
   'rm_protocol_extensions' => false,
-  'catchpoint_deleted_event' => false
+  'catchpoint_deleted_event' => false,
+  'skip_value_attr' => false
 )
 
 opts = OptionParser.new do |opts|
@@ -62,6 +63,9 @@ EOB
   opts.on("--catchpoint-deleted-event", "Enable chatchpointDeleted event") do
     options.catchpoint_deleted_event = true
   end
+  opts.on("--skip-value-attr", "Allow to skip value attribute in variable representation") do
+    options.skip_value_attr = true
+  end
   opts.separator ""
   opts.separator "Common options:"
   opts.on_tail("-v", "--version", "Show version") do
@@ -122,6 +126,7 @@ Debugger.tracing = options.tracing
 Debugger.evaluation_timeout = options.evaluation_timeout
 Debugger.rm_protocol_extensions = options.rm_protocol_extensions
 Debugger.catchpoint_deleted_event = options.catchpoint_deleted_event || options.rm_protocol_extensions
+Debugger.skip_value_attr = options.skip_value_attr || options.rm_protocol_extensions
 
 Debugger.debug_program(options)
 

lib/ruby-debug-ide.rb

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def cleanup_backtrace(backtrace)
     attr_accessor :control_thread
     attr_reader :interface
     # protocol extensions
-    attr_accessor :catchpoint_deleted_event
+    attr_accessor :catchpoint_deleted_event, :skip_value_attr
 
 
     #

lib/ruby-debug-ide/xml_printer.rb

@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ def safe_to_string(value)
     end
 
     def build_value_attr(escaped_value_str)
-      Debugger.rm_protocol_extensions ? '' : "value=\"#{escaped_value_str}\""
+      Debugger.skip_value_attr ? '' : "value=\"#{escaped_value_str}\""
     end
 
     instance_methods.each do |m|