vimspector/docs/custom_gadget_file.md

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Configuration

This document describes how to use vimspector's install_gadget.py to install custom debug adapters. This can be useful as a way to get an adapter working that isn't officially supported by Vimspector, but otherwise can be made to work by simply downloading the VScode extension into the gadget directory.

Usage

./install_gadget.py --enable-custom=/path/to/a.json \
                    --enable-custom=/path/to/b.json`

This tells install_gadget.py to read a.json and b.json as gadget definitions and download/unpack the specified gadgets into the gadget dir, just like the supported adapters.

Gadget Definitions

A gadget definition is a file containing a single JSON object definition, describing the debug adapter and how to download and install it. This mechanism is crude but can be effective.