How to highlight and color gdb output during interactive debugging?

Question

Please don\'t reply I should use ffffd, nemiver, emacs, vim, or any other front-end, I just prefer gdb as it is, but would like to see its output with some terminal colors.

Answer 1

It's not colours, but consider gdb's text gui. It makes a vast difference to how usable gdb is.

You can launch it with:

gdb -tui executable.out

Screenshot:

As you can see, the main features are:

• shows what line of the source we are on and surrounding lines
• shows breakpoints