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Re: [readline-mingw] backspace key and TUI size
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:44:49PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:01:45 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: Denis PILAT <denis.pilat@st.com>, Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>,
> > gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bash-maintainers@gnu.org
> >
> > This happens because you bypass rl_get_screen_size. Therefore you
> > use the "real" screen size, rather than readline's adjusted view of it.
>
> Right, thanks. So all you need to do is prevent readline from
> decrementing _rl_screenwidth in the Windows case.
No, I'm pretty sure readline would misbehave if I did that - it checks
for am && xn capabilities, and my experiments show that the Windows
console does not have xn. I'm not sure what in readline would go
wrong, though.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery