06-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by
fpmurphy
Are you using escape sequences to create your prompt? If so they will interfer with readline unless you use the \[ escape to begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
and the \] escape to signal the end of such a sequence.
That's it!
I wasn't able to fix the escape sequences by adding \]: the program actually displays a ] and readline fails all the same. But if I remove the escape sequences entirely (giving up on bolding text and such) the editing works!
Thanks a lot -- this is really going to make using this program much easier.
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NAME
rlfe - "cook" input lines for other programs using readline
SYNOPSIS
rlfe [-l filename] [-a] [-n appname] [-hv] [command [arguments ...]]
DESCRIPTION
rlfe lets you use history and line-editing in any text oriented tool. This is especially useful with third-party proprietary tools that
cannot be distributed linked against readline. It is not perfect but it works pretty well.
OPTIONS
-a append to the logfile (default is to overwrite).
-l filename
log into file.
-n appname
set the readline application name.
-h print usage string.
-v print version information.
SEE ALSO
readline(3)
AUTHOR
Per Bothner
PROBLEMS
/TODO
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letting the inferior think its tty driver to doing echoing. Stevens's book claims SCR$ and BSD4.3+ have TIOCREMOTE.
The latest readline may have some hooks we can use to avoid having to back up the prompt.
Desirable readline feature: When in cooked no-echo mode (e.g. password), echo characters are they are types with '*', but remove them when
done.
A synchronous output while we're editing an input line should be inserted in the output view.PPbefore* the input line, so that the lines
being edited (with the prompt) float at the end of the input.
A "page mode" option to emulate more/less behavior: At each page of output, pause for a user command. This required parsing the output to
keep track of line lengths. It also requires remembering the output, if we want an option to scroll back, which suggests that this should
be integrated with a terminal emulator like xterm.
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