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diff --git a/Misc/README b/Misc/README index 81c0dca..0ad373b 100644 --- a/Misc/README +++ b/Misc/README @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ NEWS News for this release README The file you're reading now RFD Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup cheatsheet Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer +editline-fix A news article on how to fix R$'s editline for Python fixfuncptrs.sh Shell script to fix function pointer initializers gMakefile Generic Makefile for dynamically loadable modules indent.pro GNU indent profile approximating my C style diff --git a/Misc/editline-fix b/Misc/editline-fix new file mode 100644 index 0000000..713b1a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/editline-fix @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +Subject: Problems trying to use readline or editline ... +From: Skip Montanaro <skip@dolphin.automatrix.com> +To: python-list@cwi.nl +Date: 19 Nov 1995 14:19:56 GMT +X-Newsgroups: comp.lang.python +X-Organization: Automatrix, Inc. + + +I'm having some trouble with either of the line editing libraries available +to me. If I build Python with libreadline, I get "staircases" in my +interpreter output: + + >>> s = 1 + >>> a = 3 + >>> etc. + +So I figured I'd give Rich Salz's editline a try. It seems to be missing a +couple readline functions. When I link I get: + + myreadline.o: Undefined symbol _rl_insert referenced from text segment + myreadline.o: Undefined symbol _rl_bind_key referenced from text segment + +I'm running on BSD/OS 2.0 with GCC 2.6.3 as the compiler. My configure line +was + + ./configure --with-readline=/home/dolphin/skip/src/editline \ + --with-dl-dld=/home/dolphin/skip/src/dl-dld,/home/dolphin/skip/src/dld + +For editline I tried several things before arriving at something that does +work ... sort of. First I commented out the tab key binding in Python's +Parser/myreadline.c then had to fiddle with editline.c to get tabs to +insert. The diffs below seem to work, but have no notion of tab stops (I +like 4-char tab stops). + +I'd be grateful if anybody had a solution to the readline staircases or a +better solution for making editline work. + +*** editline.c~ Tue Nov 15 08:53:01 1994 +--- editline.c Sun Nov 19 09:15:16 1995 +*************** +*** 142,145 **** +--- 142,148 ---- + TTYput('?'); + } ++ else if (c == '\t') { ++ TTYput('\t'); ++ } + else if (ISCTL(c)) { + TTYput('^'); +*************** +*** 1326,1329 **** +--- 1329,1338 ---- + } + ++ STATIC STATUS ++ tab() ++ { ++ return insert_char('\t'); ++ } ++ + STATIC KEYMAP Map[33] = { + { CTL('@'), ring_bell }, +*************** +*** 1335,1339 **** + { CTL('G'), ring_bell }, + { CTL('H'), bk_del_char }, +! { CTL('I'), c_complete }, + { CTL('J'), accept_line }, + { CTL('K'), kill_line }, +--- 1344,1348 ---- + { CTL('G'), ring_bell }, + { CTL('H'), bk_del_char }, +! { CTL('I'), tab }, + { CTL('J'), accept_line }, + { CTL('K'), kill_line }, +-- +Skip Montanaro skip@automatrix.com (518)372-5583 +Musi-Cal: http://www.calendar.com/concerts/ or mailto:concerts@calendar.com +Internet Conference Calendar: http://www.calendar.com/conferences/ + >>> ZLDF: http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<< |