Package: ghc6 Version: 6.10.1+dfsg1-13 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/ghc-6.10.1/bin/ghci-6.10.1
ghc 6.10 switched from readline to editline. Despite the comment in the release notes that "This shouldn't affect its behaviour", this does in fact cause many annoying regressions in functionality. A few examples: - The delete key inserts control sequences rather than deleting the character to the right of the point. - Ctrl-W, rather than deleting the word to the left of the point, deletes from the point back to the beginning of the line. - Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right now insert control sequences rather than moving by words. If GHC offers the option of linking to readline rather than editline, please consider making use of this option. Otherwise, please fix either GHC or editline as appropriate so that this change lives up to the claim of not affecting ghci's behavior. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ghc6 depends on: ii gcc 4:4.3.3-3 The GNU C compiler ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libedit-dev 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libffi-dev 3.0.7-1 Foreign Function Interface library ii libffi5 3.0.7-1 Foreign Function Interface library ii libgmp3-dev 2:4.2.4+dfsg-2 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.4+dfsg-2 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libncurses5 5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ghc6 recommends no packages. Versions of packages ghc6 suggests: pn ghc6-doc <none> (no description available) pn ghc6-prof <none> (no description available) pn haskell-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
