Long strings are truncated to "..." with cppvsdbg

[sean-mcmanus]

UPDATE (old issue, moved to vscode): I can't copy values from the debugger's hover view (no right click) and instead need to locate/add the value in the Watch window. Is this a limitation with VS Code's UI or what? Typescript debugging seems to have the same limitation, so I'm guessing it's a VS Code issue.

I haven't seen many users complain about this so maybe it's not a common thing to want to do?

UPDATE (this is the new issue): Then I ran into a 2nd issue in which I couldn't even copy the entire string in the Watch window, because it got truncated with "...", so I ended up just debugging with VS 2017 :(

[pieandcakes]

@sean-mcmanus I'm pretty sure we don't control copy/paste. The UI elements in VS Code are all provided by VS Code, we just return data to them. This is probably a request you will need to make on their side.

UPDATE: Then I ran into a 2nd issue in which I couldn't even copy the entire string in the Watch window, because it got truncated with "...", so I ended up just debugging with VS 2017 :(

Which debugger was this using? if you are using gdb, you can specify an additional parameter to return the entire string. Please see this.

[sean-mcmanus]

Not gdb -- the cl.exe/Windows debugger cppvsdb. Is there a way to enable the full string to get copied with that?

Sure, I'll see if VS Code has a issue open for adding a right-click menu to the debugger tooltips.

[pieandcakes]

@sean-mcmanus that string truncation is something we need to investigate. Please +1 that issue for now.

[sean-mcmanus]

I'm not sure what you mean by +1, but I just changed the title (i.e. morphed the bug into the 2nd issue).

[pieandcakes]

Go to #1786 and click the + icon in the title bar and choose the thumbs up. This is now a duplicate of that and i'll close this.