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Using DAP OutputEvent over stderr for results

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
devtools

Research direction

The issue does not name files or tests. Start by tracing how debugee output streams are routed to stderr in the debug integration, then review the DAP output-event handling; done means those streams are communicated through OutputEvent without losing the Neovim-visible output.

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Summary

Currently it seems output streams of the debugee are routed to stderr of the editor services. Is there a reason DAP OutputEvent are not being used for this?
Context:
https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap/discussions/1419#discussioncomment-11893631
The DAP client for nvim recently started routing stderr of debug server to logfiles rather than showing it to users. This change on client side now prevents me from seeing the outputs streams of my debugee in neovim. Apparently most debug servers use OutputEvent to communicate output streams, so clients will be more likely to have support for this!

Proposed Design

Use OutputEvent to communicate the output streams rather than stderr.

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