Add option to only show the current thread, or limit threads in the thread view

[wizche]

Type of feature request

Misc

Misc

UI related

Summary Description

When debugging big multi-threaded applications with hundreds of threads the thread view can fill up the terminal completely.
It would be nice that we can configure gef to only show the current thread only.

For now the only way is to disable thread view completely via the context.layout setting.

Implementation idea/suggestion

An additional settings like context.layout.singlethread

Existing alternatives?

No response

Additional information

No response

[hugsy]

It will probably go under context.nb_threads but that shouldn't long to implem.

Thanks for the idea.

[hugsy]

I must have been tired when I replied, I forgot it's already there:

gef/gef.py

Line 7112 in 8e3eba8

self["nb_lines_threads"] = (-1, "Number of line in the threads pane")

It's however not documented so that's on me. I will use this issue as a reference for a PR to come with all settings available.

[hugsy]

I am really tired, it's all documented:

https://hugsy.github.io/gef/settings/context/#setting-contextnb_lines_threads

[wizche]

Thanks a lot @hugsy, the feature that are already there are the best one 😀