I'm having some trouble with readline-enabled applications running in an XTerm. I don't know if this is fink related, but I think it might be, and I'm not sure where else to ask.
Mac OSX 10.5.8 intel. All security updates applied, but see below. XQuartz 2.3.3.2. Fink 0.29.10, tracking unstable. I've got readline5-shlibs 5.0-1006 installed. I generally use uxterm as my primary shell program, and /bin/bash as my shell. This shell of course supports readline. I have X configured to *disable* the X11.app menu keybindings, and uxterm configured so that command is meta, and I can use, e.g., meta-b and meta-f to move backword and forward by words at the bash prompt. This is the desired behavior. Whenver I start another program that's linked against fink's readline, like sqlite3 (version 3.6.13-3) or rlwrap (0.32-1), meta breaks -- not only in the new program, but also in bash once I quit sqlite3 or whatever. Now, meta-b inserts â, and meta-f inserts æ. I have to restart uxterm in order to restore the original behavior. If I fall back on just plain old xterm, things work as expected, so I'm wondering if fink's readline isn't quite set up to handle LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8. Has anyone else seen this? I'm beginning to suspect Fink's readline because when I run other readline-enabled programs (like ghci, out of the haskell platform, not out of fink), everything's fine. For a bit, I thought it might be due to the recent Apple security upgrade (after which I reinstalled XQuartz, as normal) -- I experienced something similar with the uxterm in Snow Leopard's X after an earlier aborted upgrade attempt. But I'm still showing this behavior on another computer whose setup is essentially the same, except that I haven't run Software Update in about a week and thus haven't pulled down the security update or reinstalled XQuartz. I can fall back on xterm if I have to, but I'd prefer not to lose utf-8, especially for mutt. Does anyone have any pointers? I realize I haven't provided a whole lot of information here, but it's a strange enough problem that I'm not sure what else is useful. If you'd like to see my .Xresources file, my .inputrc file, or anything else, please let me know. Thanks, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
