Here is an apparent bug in readline 5.0 as exposed on Fedora Core 4.
bash and the readline library both show the bug; readline 4 (also
shipped with FC4) does NOT show the incorrect behavior. I built the
5.0 from source from your web site, including 5 patches, and it also
shows the bug.
What I'm trying to do is set up the backspace key above the return
to act like CTRL-h and the keypad left arrow key. Used these lines
in /etc/inputrc (and tried a lot of other variations too :-) to do it:
set editing-mode vi
# convert the backspace key
$if mode=vi
set keymap vi
"\x7f":backward-char
$endif
Now when I try to edit a line (in vi mode), expect the backspace
key to do backward-char. This works the FIRST time you start a
program, but subsequent calls to readline the backspace key seems
to do "delete-backward-char", which is the default setting before
remapping as above. So the meaning of the backspace key changes
depending on how many times in that program you have called
readline(). Its like some initialized stuff gets lost between the
first and subsequent entries to readline. I am not fluent in emacs
and did not try the emacs editing mode, sorry.
The following simple program exposes the bug when
linked with readline5, but readline4 behaves as expected. And
bash also shows the problem.
/*********************************************************/
/* rl.c
* S.Coffin 11/05
* readline 5.0 bug
*
* to show bug: enter some text at XYZ prompt, then hit ESC to enter
* editing mode, then use backspace key to back up. Should act the
* same as left-arrow and CTRL-h. Works first time in, then on second
* and later calls to readline(), behavior seems to change from
* "backward-char" to "backward-delete-char"
*
* compile as:
* cc rl.c -o rl -lreadline -lcurses
* cc rl.c /root/readline/readline-5.0/shlib/libreadline.so.5.0 -o rl
-lcurses
*
* but this works fine:
* cc rl.c /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.3 -o rl -lcurses
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <readline/readline.h>
#include <readline/history.h>
main() {
char *prompt="XYZ> ";
char *ret;
ret=readline(prompt); /* correct */
printf( ">>>%s<<<\n", ret );
ret=readline(prompt); /* incorrect */
printf( ">>>%s<<<\n", ret );
ret=readline(prompt); /* incorrect */
printf( ">>>%s<<<\n", ret );
}
/*********************************************************/
Thanks for your work, readline() is a cool tool. Ever since the
introduction of line-editing (in ksh wasn't it?), I've wondered
why the readline() functions were not included at the TTY driver level,
so ALL text input would benefit. Of course, this got a lot less urgent
with X Windows and GUI input methods....
=S.Coffin
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