JuliaDebug / JuliaDebug/Cthulhu.jl
Better (or at least larger) callstack browser?
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Description
Cthulhu.jl is great!
But its UI is a bit limited: I have a terminal window with 55 rows and 185 columns, yet Cthulhu's descend insists on squeezing itself into the bottom 11 rows. Is there a way to make it use more, e.g. I'd be happy if it just used half of my screen (so ~27 rows).
Alas my call stacks are also apparently too deeply nested, and there seems to be no way to do horizontal scrolling... And I get this which you might agree is not terribly helpful:
Is there a way to change this? I.e.
- use more lines of my terminal
- possible allow for horizontal scrolling
Out of completeness (and with zero expectations to get anything like that anytime soon): I guess in the end this is something for which a well implemented GUI widget would probably beat anything one can do in a terminal alone.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by examining the terminal UI used by Cthulhu.jl's descend callstack browser and how it determines its vertical and horizontal bounds. Define done as allowing the browser to use more terminal rows and providing horizontal scrolling for deeply nested call stacks; the issue names no specific files or tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- julia
- Domain
- cli, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100