How can I resize the command line window?

[jenstroeger]

I’m a happy user of pudb and thank you for the great project.

However, one issue that keeps bugging me — and perhaps I’ve not figured out how to do this — is resizing windows inside the terminal. For example, the command line window at the bottom contains about three lines and that's not enough to work. In vim, for example, I can click and drag the status line and I’d like to do the same with the separator line between windows of pudb.

Furthermore, a traceback in that command line shows the first few lines but misses the last ones, so I don’t actually know the exception.

[inducer]

The process is arguably a little weird, but the functionality is there. The trick is to move the focus away from the input field. (E.g. just hit Cursor-right to focus the "Clear" field.) Then hit +/-, and the command line window should resize.

If you have suggestions for a more streamlined approach, I'm all ears. HTH!

[jenstroeger]

Oh I didn’t know about pressing + or -, thank you! That worked 👍🏼

The only mild improvement here I could think of would be to track mouse clicks-and-hold on the window separator bar, and move the bar with the mouse. But the keys work too.

[jenstroeger]

There’s no scrollback buffer for large output, is there?

[inducer]

There is! Once you're on the "Clear" button, you can press "Cursor up" to navigate to the console output box widget, which is scrollable. I agree that this is awkward, and made a bit worse by the fact that Cursor-up/down are mapped to history and not navigation in the console input box. This was an explicit decision at some point, but it's obviously not without downsides. Do you have a thought on what could have made this more discoverable for you?

[jenstroeger]

Ah, thank you 👍🏼 Perhaps I should RTFM for once, huh?

The debugger uses urwid, so it would be possible to get access to mouse events (docs). What if the mouse is over the shell and then you press the cursor? Might also be a bit confusing.

Oh, and I think it would be useful to add a copy-to-clipboard in the Variables (of the str() of a variable). A few times I had huge strings and needed them elsewhere and I couldn’t get to the value of those variables.

[inducer]

For the latter item, could you file an issue (labeled "enhancement")? If you need it anytime soon, perhaps also a PR. As for clipboard ops, it looks like that's even a solved problem.