Is it possible to hook a step-scripted command in to the default step action (trying to mimic Just My Code in C++)?

[alan-davies-se]

I'll try and give some context as to why I want to do this.

I am trying to obtain a Just My Code experience. I have achieved this by disabling the default step-avoid-regexp (to allow stepping in to STL) then creating a step script which continues to step if the function name matches '(^[^ ]+ (const[&\*]?)? std::)|^std::'. When I hit a break point (lets say a call to std::function's operator()) I then run my step script and I end up in my user code (please let me know if anyone would like more details).

Ideally I would like my step script to run via vscode's step-in-to button and the F11 hot key, does anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this?

[vadimcn]

Maybe try stop hooks? ("target stop-hook add") Python-based stop hooks can return a "should-stop" flag.

[alan-davies-se]

Hi thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure that would help. I have managed to hack something together but it is not ideal. The only way I could work out how to get text in to the vscode debug console (when I am on a breakpoint and want to call the step script to step all the way in to my user code) is to use the runCommands command of the keybindings.jon and use the following commands:

• workbench.debug.action.focusRepl to get focus
• paste-replaced.paste another extension that allows a regex to replace the content of the paste buffer and apply it; I couldn't work out how else to get custom text in.
• repl.action.acceptInput

This is really messy and not great but sort of gets me what I want. I'm sure you could package this all up in your extension in to a great new feature. Let me know if you are interested and I'm happy to raise a new idea discussion if you like and share more details.