From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from loas.clark.net ([168.143.0.13]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24674>; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:24:27 -0500 Received: from shell.clark.net (root@shell [168.143.0.8]) by loas.clark.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01935; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:26:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from shell.clark.net (culliton@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.clark.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10989; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:26:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802102326.SAA10989@shell.clark.net> To: broman@nosc.mil cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: "rc" shell maintainer? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 18:45:04 EST." <19980209234504.4267.qmail@np.nosc.mil> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:26:40 -0500 From: Tom Culliton On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 18:45:04 EST, Vincent Broman wrote: > My rc-1.5b2 fails to trip because of the line testing > > prompt=';' if (!~ `` '' {. -i /tmp/dot.$pid>[2=1]} ';hi'^$nl';') > > It seems that '. -i' used to output prompts, but in 1.5b2 it does not. > Was this change unintentional? I'd be uneasy about changing > trip.rc to match spec "improvements". Hmmm... This sounds familiar, are you building with GNU Readline? Now all I have to do is remember what I did to fix it... 8-/ I probably posted a patch... Aha... Yes I did, but Tim never picked it up. Look back through the archives for a message from me which moves print_prompt2 from lex.c to input.c amoung other things. I sent it before my big signal handling fix.