Thanks for figuring this out! It looks like "Patch 3" or readline 6.2 fixes this bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-07/msg00002.html but I don't know how to detect that, or whether any systems are shipping it.
Sam On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:39 PM, <ry...@racket-lang.org> wrote: > > > ae843f9 Ryan Culpepper <ry...@racket-lang.org> 2012-08-28 23:13 > : > | readline: prefer 5 (fast) over 6 (slow) > | > | Running racket in a terminal with readline 6 has excruciating delays > | in response and bizarrely slow pasting. The culprit is probably a bug > | in readline v6.2 that causes the rl_event_hook to be called repeatedly > | even when input is ready. See also the discussion here: > | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00005.html > | > | It's not clear whether racket can work around the issue in readline 6, > | but it can at least use readline 5 instead when it is available. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
