25.6 TUI Configuration Variables
Several configuration variables control the appearance of TUI windows.
set tui border-kind
kind- Select the border appearance for the source, assembly and register windows.
The possible values are the following:
space
- Use a space character to draw the border.
ascii
- Use ascii characters `+', `-' and `|' to draw the border.
acs
- Use the Alternate Character Set to draw the border. The border is
drawn using character line graphics if the terminal supports them.
set tui border-mode
modeset tui active-border-mode
mode- Select the display attributes for the borders of the inactive windows
or the active window. The mode can be one of the following:
normal
- Use normal attributes to display the border.
standout
- Use standout mode.
reverse
- Use reverse video mode.
half
- Use half bright mode.
half-standout
- Use half bright and standout mode.
bold
- Use extra bright or bold mode.
bold-standout
- Use extra bright or bold and standout mode.
set tui tab-width
nchars- Set the width of tab stops to be nchars characters. This
setting affects the display of TAB characters in the source and
assembly windows.
set tui compact-source
[on
|off
]- Set whether the TUI source window is displayed in “compact” form.
The default display uses more space for line numbers and starts the
source text at the next tab stop; the compact display uses only as
much space as is needed for the line numbers in the current file, and
only a single space to separate the line numbers from the source.
set debug tui
[on|off
]- Turn on or off display of gdb internal debug messages relating
to the TUI.
show debug tui
- Show the current status of displaying gdb internal debug
messages relating to the TUI.
Note that the colors of the TUI borders can be controlled using the
appropriate set style
commands. See Output Styling.