overlong space/tab in command-line revisited (was: Wrong concatenation of wrapped header lines)

Hi,

* Thomas Schultz on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 07:10:00 +0100:
> IIRC, the error

It's /only/ a display problem; functionality is not interfered
with by it.

> you are getting there is related to pressing <Space> on 
> a slrn command line/minibuffer, right?

Almost. This was from my example. I try to update the symptoms as
best as I can:

It happens when entering the first (and only the first) <Space>
or <Tab> (eg. for path completion) on the command-line, not only
after ^X<Esc>, but in any command:

Paste from GNU screen:

#v+
Temporary file (^G aborts): La                                                                                                                      /Users/chris/LaTeX/
#v-

displays as:

#v+
Temporary file (^G aborts): La
                            /Users/chris/LaTeX
#v-

no matter how wide the terminal is.

Pressing after execution ^L always clears the display of the
additonal line.

This is reproducable in Apple's Terminal.app and Xterm, with and
without GNU Screen.

> Have you updated to slang 2.0.7? 

$ slsh --version
slsh version 0.7.7-1; S-Lang version: pre2.1.0-4

It happens when I compile S-Lang with GNU readline as well -- but
this might concern slsh only.

> According to the changelog, John did some work on the readline 
> interface, so maybe it was some bug that he now fixed.

I cannot reproduce it slsh, but this might be the wrong place to
check.

John made ^U available though -- which worked slrn stable with
Slang-1 (IIRC), ATM I'm doing ^A^K which does sort of the same
thing.

from changes.txt:

58. src/slrline.c: Added a delete-to-beginning-of-line (delbol)
    function and bound it to ^U.

Thank you for looking into this.

It's not terribly urgent, as I personally can work around it; I
just want to let you know what's happening "out in the wild".

Have a nice day.

c
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