Re: [Patch] do not bind \340 key sequence in readline

[Benjamin Lindner]

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> Please consider the following patch. This avoids binding \340 key
> in readline. This key code corresponds indeed to 'à'. I modified the
> readline code I use for MSVC binary package, so it's no problem.
> However, this might have an impact on mingw version.

I checked with my local mingw32 build, and yes, this would be an impact
Unsetting the \340 key binding results in the cursor UP/DOWN keys not 
being functional any more.
Unsetting the "\e[A" binding however has no effect.

I don't know if this is a mingw32-readline specific problem or a cmd.exe 
specific problem or somewhere else.
I have used your readline patch for compiling with mingw32, but I'm 
currently still at version 2.9.12. Have tehre been updates to your 
readline patch? (I need to get up-to-date again...)

We can just keep it in the mingw32 build, but this would be one 
difference then between msvc and mingw

benjamin

> Michael.
>
> script/ChangeLog
>
> 2007-11-05  Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>
>
>     * startup/inputrc: do not use \340 code in key binding, because
>     it corresponds to 'à' key under Windows
>
>
>
> Index: scripts/startup/inputrc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/octave/scripts/startup/inputrc,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -c -r1.2 inputrc
> *** scripts/startup/inputrc     7 Dec 2006 01:17:27 -0000       1.2
> --- scripts/startup/inputrc     5 Nov 2007 17:35:56 -0000
> ***************
> *** 10,16 ****
>   ##   sequence for the UP arrow.
>
>   "\e[A": history-search-backward
> - "\340H": history-search-backward
>
>   ## history-search-forward:
>   ##
> --- 10,15 ----
> ***************
> *** 20,23 ****
>   ##   sequence for the DOWN arrow.
>
>   "\e[B": history-search-forward
> - "\340P": history-search-forward
> --- 19,21 ----