From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 02:48:32 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130904071257h4c7004c2ub7111f09055a9d8c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1239082320.2778.20.camel@katy-laptop> <140e7ec30904070053p20e60905y19a031837edc1931@mail.gmail.com> <3AB58E51F3A5C561C4B065E3@192.168.1.2> <140e7ec30904070731v7365aea2o7753be79bbaab8ea@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904070809v2c536289vfa8485aabef7f2f0@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130904071257h4c7004c2ub7111f09055a9d8c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5bf56f0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The man page *does* say it's too big and slow. So does the bash > manpage. And getting readline to do anything sane is about as fun as > screwing around with a terminfo file. A bad implementation is not a bad design. And, in fact, the badness of the=20 implementation is even questionable in the light of bash's normal behavior=20 or the working .inputrc files I've been using for some time. Anyway, thanks for the info. --On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:57 PM -0400 "J.R. Mauro" = wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Eris Discordia > wrote: >> I see. But seriously, readline does handle bindings and line editing for >> bash. Except it's a function instead of a program and you think it's a >> bad idea. > > The man page *does* say it's too big and slow. So does the bash > manpage. And getting readline to do anything sane is about as fun as > screwing around with a terminfo file. > >> >> --On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:31 PM +0800 sqweek >> wrote: >> >>> 2009/4/7 Eris Discordia : >>>>>> >>>>>> Keyboard >>>>>> bindings for example; why couldn't they be handled by a program that >>>>>> just does keyboard bindings + line editing, and writes finalized >>>>>> lines to the shell. >>>> >>>> Like... readline(3)? >>> >>> =C2=A0No. >>> -sqweek >>> >> >> >> >> --On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:09 AM -0700 ron minnich >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Eris Discordia >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Like... readline(3)? >>> >>> one hopes not. >>> >>> ron >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >