EPIC: Feature Parity with Theia Extension

[colin-grant-work]

Description

• Improve handling of debug session lifecycle: Context should track active debug session #6
  • Track capabilities of created sessions
  • Set context based on active session
  • Check capabilities of active session
  • Handle capability events?
  • Link view and session #97
• Improve View
  • Use monospace in view. Use monospace fonts in memory display #8
  • Implement change marking.
  • Copy paste should produce a grid, not a vertical list. (Fixed by Migrate vscode-webview-ui-toolkit to primereact #57)

  Can't use VSCode Grid components for this, at least for now.

  • Restore 'follow pointer' functionality #123
  • Implement hover (Display of different data representations (decimal, octal, binary, float, double, signed vs unsigned, etc) #66)
  • ASCII column #24
  • Implement automatic update when frame changes #11
    • Option to disable dynamicity in-view, maybe also via preference
    • Highlighting of changes
• Implement Configuration Widget: Implement options view #7
• Implement Diffing Implement ability to compare state of two memory widgets #9
• Implement Memory Write UI Implement ability to write memory contents #10
• Implement Memory Search UI
• Variable Labeling & Highlighting #12
  • Option for full resolution (incl. sizes) vs. marking start
• Flexible highlighting / decoration system #13
• Implement Data Breakpoint (Watchpoint) UI
• Implement Register View?
  • Register + memory linkage to show registers pointing at memory regions?

Since registers are supposed to be handled in the variables request, maybe there's no need for a separate view in the Memory Inspector? Are there areas where we can go beyond the presentation in the Variables Widget?

• Implement Contribution System?

Idea here would be to identify behavior that differs among adapters and let plugins that contribute debuggers also modify Memory Inspector behavior. Some areas that might differ: resolving variable sizes or internal structure, memory searchability, variable reference syntax (though the memory reference field of the DAP mostly covers that).

[colin-grant-work]

I will also create issues for the other smaller parts so that they can be handled individually.