How to automatically refresh gdb in tui mode?
Had the exact same problem.Have you tried GDB user-defined hooks or commands ?
In your ~/.gdbinit or in your session, you can do:
define hook-next refreshendThis will call the refresh command each time you enter the next command or one of its aliases.
Or you can define:
define mynext next refreshendand call mynext instead of next.
Hooks are automatically called whenever a command C is entered and a hook-C exists, that's so cool, I've just discovered that in the docs.
See https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Define.htmland https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Hooks.html#Hooks
You can add as many hooks/defines as you want.
Partially related: I put this in my ~/.gdbinit and it successfully refreshes the TUI after I use c and n, which were the commands usually causing TUI cruft in my case.
define c continue refreshenddefine n next refreshend