Question: best practices for custom Context implementation

[mahaloz]

Hi, apologies for veering from the normal issue guidelines in hopes that a question would not constitute a normal issue. I'm currently developing a GEF command that I would like used like a ContextCommand. I have data that I would like to output at every "break-like" event. I know I could use gef_on_stop_hook, but I want this data to be displayed like a normal context output. I know pwndbg supports adding new Contexts, I wanted to know if there is a method in GEF I am just not aware of.

Any suggestions from devs?

Thanks.

[Grazfather]

We don't support this currently, but it's a good idea.

We could add support to 'register' a function as a 'user context' which would be called along with the rest of context. Your intent would be to write something in python, or rather to write gef/gdb commands that should be output?

[mahaloz]

@Grazfather, thanks for getting back to me. I also DMed @hugsy about this. I'll close this issue and reopen as a feature request to better document this. Thanks!