Hello again, Am 26.06.2012 um 16:38 schrieb Chet Ramey:
> On 6/26/12 3:51 AM, Max Horn wrote: [...] > >> What surprises me is the second change: You also added a "continue" in case >> "rl_gather_tyi" did manage to read something. So this would reduce the >> number of times the event hook is being called. So I assume this is meant to >> fix an issue distinct from the one I reported, respectively to make the >> behavior of this loop conform with the expected behavior you just described >> (only calling the hook if a rl_gather_tyi completed with a *full* timeout, >> no data was read). Correct? > > Yes. The reason the change was made in the first place is that the hook > should not be called for each character read. That's not its purpose, and > it makes using the timeout more difficult. OK, thank you very much for the patch and taking the time to give some explanations :-). Is there any chance to get this turned into an official patch for readline 6.2, considering the problem it fixes is a major nuisance for people using GNU readline 6.2 on Mac OS X? Cheers, max _______________________________________________ Bug-readline mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-readline
