From: Tom Culliton <culliton@clark.net>
To: Tim Goodwin <tgoodwin@cygnus.co.uk>
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: "rc" shell maintainer?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:23:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199802112223.RAA20523@shell.clark.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 05:45:36 EST." <I0wAAGWB4TSy1A4A@nan.cygnus.co.uk>
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 05:45:36 EST, Tim Goodwin 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".
>
> This hasn't changed since 1.4: `-i' only works as documented if you
> don't use readline or editline. I guess this is a bug, although I
> haven't thought about it much.
Up until the wait bug cropped up in Linux, rc was tripping cleanly for
me under Linux, Solaris, SunOs, AIX, ... with readline. The patch for
the prompt problem was pretty obvious when I looked at it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-11 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-04 21:23 Vincent Broman
1998-02-05 1:17 ` Tom Culliton
1998-02-05 11:46 ` Tim Goodwin
1998-02-05 21:48 ` Vincent Broman
1998-02-06 18:00 ` Tim Goodwin
1998-02-06 22:54 ` Vincent Broman
1998-02-09 20:31 ` Vincent Broman
1998-02-09 23:45 ` Vincent Broman
1998-02-10 23:26 ` Tom Culliton
1998-02-11 10:45 ` Tim Goodwin
1998-02-11 22:23 ` Tom Culliton [this message]
1998-02-12 10:23 ` Tim Goodwin
1998-02-11 21:55 ` Vincent Broman
1998-02-05 5:01 smarry
1998-02-05 15:25 ` Tom Culliton
1998-02-06 17:45 ` Tim Goodwin
1998-02-05 19:59 smarry
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