Re: readline problems

Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>:
>
> > > If you want to write the autoconf deterction code for this, be my
> > > guest.
> > 
> > I don't really know autoconf/readline well enough for this, I think.
> 
> It would be a good learning experience. :-)

Heh. My learning experiences with autotools so far have been -- shall
we say, "interesting". :]

I'll take a look, but I expect I won't get far.

[snip]
> There's some functionality that's only available in the new APIs.
> 
> Here's the CVS entry.
> 
> ----------------------------
> revision 2.49
> date: 2002/05/30 15:41:56;  author: gvanrossum;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
> SF #558432: Prevent Annoying ' ' from readline (Holker Krekel).

I see. This seems reasonable, I guess. (Although, if one uses readline
with Cmd, I would expect that ' ' is exactly what one wants, so
setting this from Python -- i.e. the "alternate approach" of the cvs
entry -- seems like a good idea...)

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Magnus Lie Hetland
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