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regarding prefix-args accumulate indefinitely
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Hi Hans,
I don't know if you've seen already, but a Debian user has found an
interesting little bug with rlwrap. I have confirmed that it also happens on
my machine with rlwrap 0.33.
Cheers,
Francois
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Package: rlwrap
Version: 0.28-2
If I press "M-5" and then "f", "f" gets correctly repeated 5 times. However,
then the count doesn't get reset, so all letters from then on out all get
repeated 5 times! The prefix-arg should be reset after every command. But here
there doesn't seem to be any way to reset the prefix argument at all! Even
pressing M-1 after that just appends the 1 to the 5, causing everything to be
repeated 51 times, even worse!
This is quite irritating, as when that happens there's no way to recover except
quitting the program, so far as I can tell.
I'm not sure who this bug belongs to. I think it's in rlwrap since I've never
seen it happen in other readline-using programs (for example: python), but,
just in case it's not, I have libreadline5 5.2-3.1.
I also tried upgrading rlwrap 0.33 from unstable, which uses libreadline6, and
that didn't change the behavior.
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