Assembly code highlight

[gildasio]

Type of feature request

Misc

Misc

Implement highlight for code section in context

Summary Description

It would be great if GEF had this option to highlight assembly on code section in context.

Sorry if it was already discussed, I can't find any issue about it.

Implementation idea/suggestion

Existing alternatives?

No response

Additional information

No response

[hugsy]

Hi @gildasio

This doesn't exist because GEF disassembler wrapper uses a specific coloring system to indicate things like previous instructions (fg=light grey) current instruction (fg=green) etc. Having assembly highlight on top of that would be pretty unreadable (not to mention very user specific as not everybody uses the same color schemes in their terminal).

If you really want highlighted assembly in the context, you can easily drop the code pane GEF uses and rely on GDB's x/i instead. You can refer to the documentation if that's something you're interested in doing.

[Grazfather]

This would ostensibly be done in gef-extras.

This would need something like the pygments library, and gef explicitly does not have external dependencies.

[hugsy]

This feature is unlikely to get implemented here.
Moving to gef-extras