I'm sure, but could you point me in the direction of these tools?
I would love to supply GDB with some aliases for much used templates so I can have less verbose outputs
I'm not a C++ dev, but here are a couple of IDEs that I know have strong C++ support and much more user friendly debugging than using GDB via the command line...
https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/