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+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
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