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has caused the Debian Bug report #525355,
regarding /usr/lib/ghc-6.10.1/bin/ghci-6.10.1: New non-readline line editing
has many regressions (delete, ^W, ...)
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Package: ghc6
Version: 6.10.1+dfsg1-13
Severity: normal
File: /usr/lib/ghc-6.10.1/bin/ghci-6.10.1
ghc 6.10 switched from readline to editline. Despite the comment in the
release notes that "This shouldn't affect its behaviour", this does in
fact cause many annoying regressions in functionality. A few examples:
- The delete key inserts control sequences rather than deleting the
character to the right of the point.
- Ctrl-W, rather than deleting the word to the left of the point,
deletes from the point back to the beginning of the line.
- Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right now insert control sequences rather than
moving by words.
If GHC offers the option of linking to readline rather than editline,
please consider making use of this option. Otherwise, please fix either
GHC or editline as appropriate so that this change lives up to the claim
of not affecting ghci's behavior.
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ghc6 depends on:
ii gcc 4:4.3.3-3 The GNU C compiler
ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libedit-dev 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries
ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries
ii libffi-dev 3.0.7-1 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libffi5 3.0.7-1 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libgmp3-dev 2:4.2.4+dfsg-2 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.4+dfsg-2 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii perl [perl5] 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ghc6 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ghc6 suggests:
pn ghc6-doc <none> (no description available)
pn ghc6-prof <none> (no description available)
pn haskell-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Version: 7.0.3-1
..at least the mentioned issues. I’m not claiming that editline is
already perfect.
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Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
Debian Developer
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