This is a known issue that history file format is different between
readline and linenoise in that readline seems store space as octat number.
I think a simple workaround is to assign a different jhistory filename for
linenoise. I'll do it in the next update.


On Thu, May 23, 2019, 2:25 PM Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote:

> I can confirm same observations as Ric (and agree that tab-completion of
> paths is missed but less critical that other things).
>
> I do note that ~/.jhistory gets stomped on and while previous history
> seems to be there in jconsolemr, it is gone from 901/bin/jconsole instances.
>
> As someone whose use of J is 99.9% from a CLI, I'm concerned about this.
>
> As an added "benefit" to being so retro, I've never had any trouble with
> ^C for breaking a long running task and confess to never having used jbreak
> which has been a UI topic of late.
>
> - joey
>
> > On 2019May 22, at 23:10, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, yes I can confirm that ctrl+z works with jconsolemr.
> > No tab-completion of paths though, but given there will be both options
> > (readline and a new "no dependencies" version, then that's a reasonable
> > compromise.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:03 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, but I don't think this fork is good because it used c++
> >> which make building binaries complicated. It is not the only
> >> fork for linenoise.
> >>
> >> I have made patch from another fork and jconsole (linenosie) can
> >> work for utf8 ctrl-r ctrl-z ctrl-c.
> >>
> >> please get and try the jconsolemr (minimalist readline)
> >> from www.jsoftware.com/download/jengine/j901-beta/linux/j64
> >>
> >> Thu, 23 May 2019, Ric Tikkanz написал(а):
> >>> Did you take a look at https://github.com/AmokHuginnsson/replxx  ?
> >>>
> >>> From my reading it would also provide a self-contained, no outside
> >>> dependency solution, but has a significantly enhanced feature set.
> >>>
> >>> Features:
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>   - single-line and multi-line editing mode with the usual key bindings
> >>>   implemented
> >>>   - history handling
> >>>   - completion
> >>>   - syntax highlighting
> >>>   - hints
> >>>   - BSD license source code
> >>>   - Only uses a subset of VT100 escapes (ANSI.SYS compatible)
> >>>   - UTF8 aware
> >>>   - support for Linux, MacOS and Windows
> >>>
> >>> It deviates from Salvatore's original goal to have a minimal readline
> >>> replacement for the sake of supporting UTF8 and Windows. It deviates
> from
> >>> 10gen Inc.'s goal to create a C++ interface to linenoise. This library
> >> uses
> >>> C++ internally, but to the user it provides a pure C interface that is
> >>> compatible with the original linenoise API. C interface.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:23 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Sorry for missing some context for discussion. linenoise here refers
> to
> >>>>
> >>>> https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, May 21, 2019, 12:14 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> P.S. if the point of "linenoise" was to cope with faulty modem
> >>>>> sessions, note that people with this issue could disable control-z
> >>>>> before starting J, using
> >>>>>
> >>>>> stty susp undef
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But I don't think J should be optimized for faulty hardware.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Raul
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 12:09 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I do not know what linenoise is, in this context, but control-z is
> >>>>>> basic functionality which predates libedit by decades.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> My inclination would be to remove that entire section of code (from
> >>>>>> the case statement to the continue statement) from the
> >> feature-reduced
> >>>>>> implementation of jconsole.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Raul
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:55 AM bill lam <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Right, the original linenoise ignore ctrl-z. There is another
> >>>>>>> fork that seemed has a patch for it.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>        case ctrl('Z'):     /* ctrl-z */
> >>>>>>> #ifdef SIGTSTP
> >>>>>>>            /* send ourselves SIGSUSP */
> >>>>>>>            disableRawMode(current);
> >>>>>>>            raise(SIGTSTP);
> >>>>>>>            /* and resume */
> >>>>>>>            enableRawMode(current);
> >>>>>>>            refreshLine(current);
> >>>>>>> #endif
> >>>>>>>            continue;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If users want the same level of functions of libedit, the
> >>>>>>> linenoise version can never satisfy them no matter how hard
> >>>>>>> we put efforts to improve linenoise. It is better to use the
> >>>>>>> libedit in that case.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Mon, 20 May 2019, Raul Miller написал(а):
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:04 AM bill lam <[email protected]
> >>>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> jconsole can not run on rhel if users do not have sudo right
> >> to
> >>>>> symlink
> >>>>>>>>> some shared library. I hope this issue can be addressed
> >> properly
> >>>>>>>>> in j901.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This is an example of a bigger problem that can occur in a
> >> variety
> >>>>> of contexts.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I think the "jconsole without libedit" mechanism is a good
> >> thing.
> >>>> If
> >>>>>>>> we want J to be usable in docker instances, ec2 instances,
> >> docker
> >>>>>>>> instances in ec2 instances, etc. etc. then we want it to be
> >> simple
> >>>>> and
> >>>>>>>> robust. (We also would want relevant documentation and some
> >> way of
> >>>>>>>> coping with feature drift and stale documentation in the
> >> hosting
> >>>>>>>> environments, but that just gives you an idea of the scope of
> >> the
> >>>>>>>> problems.)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> That said:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> (1) It's odd that this beta jconsole instance is ignoring
> >>>> control-Z.
> >>>>>>>> This issue suggests that the SIGTSTP signal is being caught and
> >>>> then
> >>>>>>>> jconsole is ignoring it. (It would probably be a good idea to
> >> not
> >>>>>>>> catch signals if you do not have a specific reason for doing
> >> so. If
> >>>>>>>> there's a reason for this one, it might need a foreign?)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> (2) If symlinks are the showstopper for the feature-enhanced
> >>>>> jconsole,
> >>>>>>>> it would make sense to put the symlinks in the same directory
> >> as J
> >>>>> and
> >>>>>>>> link against those. If there are other issues (like different
> >>>>> versions
> >>>>>>>> of libedit having different interfaces for needed mechanisms)
> >> it
> >>>>> would
> >>>>>>>> make sense to let the user compile the code that uses the
> >>>> libraries.
> >>>>>>>> If the user needs privileges to compile and deploy which they
> >> do
> >>>> not
> >>>>>>>> have, they can fall back on the feature reduced jconsole.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> Raul
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>
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