Obviously, this works fine in bash. I wouldn't be complaining if all of
my machines were broken. They are not.
I'll sync again with CVS.
Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
>On 15 Feb 2002, Camm Maguire wrote:
>
>>1) You have correctly built gcl-2.5.0 from cvs with readline support,
>> and that 'ldd unixport/saved_gcl' shows the readline library linked
>> in.
>>2) When executing the script front-end to saved_gcl from an xterm,
>> i.e. the 'gcl' script, you see ^OD] with back-arrow, backspace
>> works, and that tab, Alt-b, etc., report similar ascii
>> representations of control characters to the screen.
>>
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>If the readline is linked in, it looks like it is disabled. Do other
>programs work correctly, which use the readline library (bash, gdb)? Is
>there anything special in your ~/.inputrc (or /etc/inputrc) file (it
>controls the readline behaviour)?
>
>The Readline does nothing within GCL, unless it is expicitly enabled from
>Lisp. However, it should be enabled automatically (unless things have
>changed in 2.5.0). Maybe the Lisp code isn't executing as it should or
>something.
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