Make color escape codes work in cgdb

Question

I have the following function residing in ~/.gdbinit:

define foo
    echo \033[34m
    echo testing...\n
    echo \033[0m
end

When running foo in gdb it prints testing... in blue, however, when running it in cgdb the result is:

[34mtesting...
[0m

How can I enable color escape codes in cgdb?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the gdb "window" in cgdb is not a full-fledged terminal... it can handle basic text I/O but it will not render any terminal escape sequences such as colors, cursor movement, etc.