display ASCII control characters in Emacs GUD (gdb) mode

Question

Programs I debug output a lot of debug using ascii ctrl characters for colors, bold etc. In GUD mode they appear as "^[[...m".

Is there a way to have that output like it would be in a console?

Platform

Answer 1

You can use ansi-color.el which is part of Emacs now. You can add a hook to gdb-mode (I think that's what it's called) to automatically set this up when you go into gud.

Percipient

You are right! I have stopped trying ansi-color because it never worked for me in the past when I used older emacs. Thanks! – Platform

@Platform How did you achieve it? I tried on Emacs 24.4 but never succeeded. – Subplot