Re: Horizontal Scrolling not working in TUI Regs window

>>>>> Amit Pandey via Gdb <[email protected]> writes:

> I’m writing to clarify the intended behavior of the TUI “registers” window
> and to ask whether horizontal scrolling (or another way to view full wide
> registers) can be supported.

> 1) Is the lack of horizontal scrolling in the TUI “registers” window
> intentional (by design), or is it considered a missing feature/bug?

It is probably just a historical accident, because when this window was
first written there weren't readily available machines with wide vector
registers.

> 2) If this is by design, would the project consider an enhancement to:
>    - Enable horizontal scrolling for the registers window; or
>    - Provide a dedicated “expanded register” TUI window (or command) that
> shows the selected register in a scrollable region?

I think scrolling would be completely fine.  Less sure about the other
thing but I guess it would depend on the details.  Occasionally there's
been talk of having a local variable / expression display (TBH you'd
think this would have happened decades ago).

> 3) Is there a recommended workflow today (beyond `info register` and
> widening the terminal) for interactively viewing full wide register
> contents in TUI?

If you are desperate you can use 'display' to automatically show the
register(s) you're interested in.

If you're really super desperate and/or adventurous you could try
writing your own register-like TUI window in Python.

One thing you could do is file this in bugzilla.  However I should warn
you that this isn't a guarantee that anybody will implement the feature.

thanks,
Tom