Dexed debugger UI now supports inspection of the variables based on mouse motion

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 09:06:26 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> I don't know why I havent implemented this earlier as it was 
> quite simple. It's basically the same as when you evaluate a 
> custom expression excepted that you use the mouse position to 
> extract a (more or less, TBH) precise unary expression.
>
>     https://imgur.com/a/e4urRY9
>
> Only problem is that GDB requires explicit dereferences, that 
> are normally automatic in D semantic, so big chain of 
> identifiers wont work and display '???'.
>
> Example:
>
>     for D       :    a.d.c.somevar
>     GDB needs   :  (*a).(*d).(*c).somevar
>
> if a,d and c are classes or struct pointers. So far dexed will 
> display
>
> ______________________________________
> exp: a.d.c.somevar
> ---
> (result of -data-evaluate $exp)
> ---
> (result of -data-evaluate *$exp)
> ______________________________________
>
> so only one dereference. And in the a.d.c.somevar example this 
> would not work.

related commit 
https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/commit/7a049959214db2e8818131b6943724e2b3a15ee5