| Guido van Rossum | dc082eb | 1996-09-12 17:29:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Subject: Problems trying to use readline or editline ... |
| 2 | From: Skip Montanaro <skip@dolphin.automatrix.com> |
| 3 | To: python-list@cwi.nl |
| 4 | Date: 19 Nov 1995 14:19:56 GMT |
| 5 | X-Newsgroups: comp.lang.python |
| 6 | X-Organization: Automatrix, Inc. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 | I'm having some trouble with either of the line editing libraries available |
| 10 | to me. If I build Python with libreadline, I get "staircases" in my |
| 11 | interpreter output: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | >>> s = 1 |
| 14 | >>> a = 3 |
| 15 | >>> etc. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | So I figured I'd give Rich Salz's editline a try. It seems to be missing a |
| 18 | couple readline functions. When I link I get: |
| 19 | |
| 20 | myreadline.o: Undefined symbol _rl_insert referenced from text segment |
| 21 | myreadline.o: Undefined symbol _rl_bind_key referenced from text segment |
| 22 | |
| 23 | I'm running on BSD/OS 2.0 with GCC 2.6.3 as the compiler. My configure line |
| 24 | was |
| 25 | |
| 26 | ./configure --with-readline=/home/dolphin/skip/src/editline \ |
| 27 | --with-dl-dld=/home/dolphin/skip/src/dl-dld,/home/dolphin/skip/src/dld |
| 28 | |
| 29 | For editline I tried several things before arriving at something that does |
| 30 | work ... sort of. First I commented out the tab key binding in Python's |
| 31 | Parser/myreadline.c then had to fiddle with editline.c to get tabs to |
| 32 | insert. The diffs below seem to work, but have no notion of tab stops (I |
| 33 | like 4-char tab stops). |
| 34 | |
| 35 | I'd be grateful if anybody had a solution to the readline staircases or a |
| 36 | better solution for making editline work. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | *** editline.c~ Tue Nov 15 08:53:01 1994 |
| 39 | --- editline.c Sun Nov 19 09:15:16 1995 |
| 40 | *************** |
| 41 | *** 142,145 **** |
| 42 | --- 142,148 ---- |
| 43 | TTYput('?'); |
| 44 | } |
| 45 | + else if (c == '\t') { |
| 46 | + TTYput('\t'); |
| 47 | + } |
| 48 | else if (ISCTL(c)) { |
| 49 | TTYput('^'); |
| 50 | *************** |
| 51 | *** 1326,1329 **** |
| 52 | --- 1329,1338 ---- |
| 53 | } |
| 54 | |
| 55 | + STATIC STATUS |
| 56 | + tab() |
| 57 | + { |
| 58 | + return insert_char('\t'); |
| 59 | + } |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | STATIC KEYMAP Map[33] = { |
| 62 | { CTL('@'), ring_bell }, |
| 63 | *************** |
| 64 | *** 1335,1339 **** |
| 65 | { CTL('G'), ring_bell }, |
| 66 | { CTL('H'), bk_del_char }, |
| 67 | ! { CTL('I'), c_complete }, |
| 68 | { CTL('J'), accept_line }, |
| 69 | { CTL('K'), kill_line }, |
| 70 | --- 1344,1348 ---- |
| 71 | { CTL('G'), ring_bell }, |
| 72 | { CTL('H'), bk_del_char }, |
| 73 | ! { CTL('I'), tab }, |
| 74 | { CTL('J'), accept_line }, |
| 75 | { CTL('K'), kill_line }, |
| 76 | -- |
| 77 | Skip Montanaro skip@automatrix.com (518)372-5583 |
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