Message-Id: Date: Wed, 19 May 99 15:40:12 MET DST From: Michel de Ruiter To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gdb 4.18 for DJGPP (alpha) Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com > > The termios_enable_function_and_arrow_keys or whatever it is > > called activates the PC editing keys IIRC. > That version of termios is not in the current libc, and I'm not sure > it will ever be. Ah, I didn't realize that. Sorry. > Daisuke Aoyama, who wrote the code, is nowhere to be found, and we > cannot used his code in the library without asking for permission. Uhm, why *can* we use his code for the Bash port, then? Did he only give permission to use it for Bash?!? > > Maybe gdb should be upgraded to Readline 4.0, which can be found > > in Bash. > Are the differences significant? If not, IMHO we need to decide how > to go about the missing PC keys support and whether to emulate > termcap, before the decision can be made if upgrading to a later > Readline is worth our while (for GDB 4.18, that is). No significant differences, but upgrading wouldn't be hard too and might fix some minor bugs. The termcap emulation (for the screen output) can wait IMHO, as a dumb terminal is enough for most command line editing. As it did not use Daisuke's Readline, did gdb ever work with PC keys? Groente, Michel.