Re: string too long from write-char

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.general
Organization Informatimago
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Don Cohen) writes:

> The problem is that clisp seems to want to store the current line
> it's writing to the terminal.  I don't yet understand why.
> I could see with this might be done by readline.
> To me this seems to qualify as a bug - there should be no requirement
> that a newline is written to the terminal every 5 million characters
> or so.
>
> My current work around is to write a newline every so often to the 
> stream.  This generic stream was translating newline characters into 
> a sequence of control characters to position the cursor.

The point is that you write to iq::data, you say that it's bound to
cl:*terminal-io*, but we have no reason to believe you.  

Again, WFM:

    [3]> (copy-utl2 *terminal-io*)
    [… writes 160000 spaces …]
    NIL
    [4]> 


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