>>>>> Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>> on Thu, 19 May 2016 10:26:44 +0200 writes:
>>>>> <frede...@ofb.net>
>>>>> on Wed, 18 May 2016 15:03:31 -0700 writes:
>> Readline <= 6.2 shouldn't require the SIGWINCH patch, so
>> if older versions have trouble finding rl_resize_terminal
>> then you could wrap a macro around that part.
> I find python related patches that use
> #ifdef HAVE_RL_RESIZE_TERMINAL
> so they must have configured for that. We could and
> probably should do the same, but as a Linux_only guy
> currently (even basically only one flavor of Linux), I'd
> appreciate others to produce code for that.
Actually that was easy (in hindsight.. I took too long!)
enough, so I've now committed
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r70632 | maechler | 2016-05-19 10:59:51 +0200 (Thu, 19 May 2016) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M configure
M configure.ac
M src/include/config.h.in
M src/unix/sys-std.c
check for rl_resize_terminal() now
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... and Keith should even not see the warning anymore
(nor Peter the error, when compiling using readline 5.x instead of 6.[23]).
>> The isearch C-c bug has existed forever, according to
>> Chet Ramey.
> I see. As your patch seems to only work for readline (>=)
> 6.3, we have solved part of the problems. If those who
> use olders readlines are willing to test and provide (well
> looking, as yours) patches for earlier versions, they
> should be welcome too.
>> Yes, I had to retrain myself to use C-g to exit isearch
>> but it's confusing. It would be nice to fix this C-c bug
>> on older versions too, but my solution used some global
>> variables and I'm not sure which Readline version they
>> date from.
>> Out of curiosity, did you delete the
>> HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H block?
> Not yet...I've even kept your suggestion about it in the
> source comments. Note you can always point your web
> browser at https://svn.r-project.org/trunk/R/ which
> contains upto the minute current R development sources (it
> *is* our apache based subversion server), i.e., the file
> in this case is
> https://svn.r-project.org/trunk/R/src/unix/sys-std.c
> {or you can use the github *mirror* of the svn server
> which provides version/revision/log etc ((this be
> available for svn as well, but we (I) had chosen not to
> provide (via apache modules) just to keep our server as
> bare bones as possible and hence less vulnerable to
> viciousities)) }
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