Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/29/09:00:32
Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
> Would someone please port Readline to DJGPP so that the ported
> version works like on Unix? Arrows and other PC-specific keys are
> one issue that should be resolved; the Alt key as a replacement for
> META is another.
OK, as I wrote before, I have taken the changes Daisuke Aoyama made to
Bash-1.14.7 (including his new tminit.c), applied them to
Readline-2.2 and fixed some problems/bugs.
I wrote Daisuke about my intention to send the patches to the
bash-maintainers, but I don't get any response from him. Also, I
wanted to see his Bash-2 patches first, to see about improvements.
> A few GNU packages use Readline for input, and it's a pity that I
> still need to press Ctrl-P instead of Up arrow in GDB. (I don't mind
> doing this, as I'm accustomed to these Ctrl keys, but many PC users
> aren't.)
I'll send the patches to the bash-maintainers now. They are also
available on http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter/rl22.dif (97K).
On MS-DOS, Readline doesn't need libtermcap.a/termcap.h any more.
Clear-screen and visual-bell are made to work with DJGPP. Screen
dimensions other than 80x25 are supported with DJGPP. The console
works as a dumb terminal on MS-DOS, the way it worked with Bash-1.14.7
if you don't have /etc/termcap (horizontal scrolling only). Also,
multibyte characters are supported (I guess, haven't tested it, just
copied it from Bash-1.14.7!). Alt-characters should work too,
especially with arrow keys.
Shall I make a README.DOS and compile a source/binary distribution for
the DJGPP FTP-site? Or is it enough to have GNU applying the patches?
--
Groeten, Michel. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
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