Package: libjline-java
Version: 0.9.94-5
Severity: normal
In xterm, gnome-terminal, lxterminal, and presumably other X terminals as well,
and even linux console, some sequences of left-arrow and up-arrow key-presses
corrupt lines from the history by adding nulls and dropping characters
earlier in the line. This hampers effective use of the command-line history
in every language interpreter I have tried that uses jline, and is a source of
frustration in using these programs to experiment with the languages.
I have reproduced the problem in bsh, jirb and clojure repl, the latter invoked
as:
$ java -cp /usr/share/java/clojure.jar:/usr/share/java/jline.jar
jline.ConsoleRunner clojure.main
Using clojure repl, the following steps are sufficient to reproduce the problem
and demonstrate that the corruption is accompanied by the addition of a null
character.
1.Enter these lines:
(println hello world)
(println hello)
2. press up-arrow, left-arrow, up-arrow, and the line now looks like this:
user= (println hell world)
3. press enter on this line, resulting in the following:
hell world
nil
java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: in this context
(NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
4. ^D to exit and hexdump -C ~/.jline-clojure.main.history produces:
28 70 72 69 6e 74 6c 6e 20 22 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 |(println hello |
0010 77 6f 72 6c 64 22 29 0a 28 70 72 69 6e 74 6c 6e |world).(println|
0020 20 22 68 65 6c 6c 6f 22 29 0a 28 70 72 69 6e 74 | hello).(print|
0030 6c 6e 20 22 68 65 6c 6c 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 22 29 |ln hell world)|
0040 00 0a |..|
0042
Notice the single null at the end of the third line before the newline
character. This accounts both for the Unable to resolve symbol: in this
context error message (the null is the symbol you can't see in this message)
and for the fact that a single character is dropped in hell world (though why
it is the 'o' and not some other character is mysterious).
In bsh and jirb the corruption is exactly the same.
bsh version:
bsh % print(hello world);
hello world
bsh % print(hello);
hello
bsh % print(hell world);
hell world
jirb version:
puts hello world
hello world
= nil
puts hello
hello
= nil
puts hell world
hell world
= nil
I have experimented with different language settings, (LANG=C, =en_US.UTF-8,)
different
terminal emulators, (as indicated in my summary above,) and different values of
TERM, (screen, xterm, dumb.) Nothing helps.
Thanks,
Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libjline-java depends on:
ii default-jre-headless [java2-r 1.6-34 Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii openjdk-6-jre-headless [java2 6b17-1.7-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
libjline-java recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libjline-java suggests:
pn libjline-java-doc none (no description available)
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