Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

[malte]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't cntl-L the form feed character?
And how would you issue a clear command while editing a line?

Malte.

Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

[Byron Rakitzis]

Simmy's address is "simmy@capitol.com", or otherwise
"uunet.uu.net!capitol!sysgo!simmy".

Also, one thing: right now editline runs under System V as well as BSD;
it would be a shame to arbitrarily restrict its use to one of those
systems, or worse, provide essentially 2 copies of editline, interlaced
with #ifdef, to work on both systems. Is there a good way out of this
dilemma?

(I guess I'm thinking about struct sgttyb here)

Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

[malte]

There some minor defficiencies to editline, I already started hacking it:
	1) cntl-L should not just reprint the current line, but clear the
	   whole screen. This requires termcap capabilities (done).
	2) Because I prefer to keep long commands on one line, I increased
	   the maximum line length. In situations when the terminal is smaller
	   than the line length, the implementation of <backspace> fails to
	   redraw the correctly (to be done). Also cntl-L fails (done).

Btw, what is the email address of Simmule R. Turner ??

Malte.

first impressions rc 1.3beta

[Brendan Kehoe]

   From: Byron Rakitzis <byron@archone.tamu.edu>
   Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 08:57:21 -0600

   Re: bison. bison generates a larger file than old Berkeley yacc, my
   reference point. Now, this is starting to look like useless
   information, since no one seems to be running the old yacc! (NeXT
   does---I'll keep using it as long as I can for ALL my rc builds). I'll
   take the comment out.

Since you bring it up (and I figure a bunch of people reading this
right now have a good amount of experience with 'em--more than I, at
least), I'm going to take a quick liberty...

I'm putting together a reference card (same format as the GNU emacs
refcard) for Bison & Flex; if any of you have suggestions on what
information would be really good to have on such a thing, I'd love to
hear them.

We return you to your regularly scheduled beta test.  This message
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Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

[schwartz]

I just tried out the new line editing code bundled with 1.3.  Here's a
quibble:  On SunOS, if you don't use the streams ioctls (and do use the
bsd ones) you lose typeahead whenever you switch modes.  I prefer
typeahead.

Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

[Byron Rakitzis]

Re: bison. bison generates a larger file than old Berkeley yacc, my
reference point. Now, this is starting to look like useless
information, since no one seems to be running the old yacc! (NeXT
does---I'll keep using it as long as I can for ALL my rc builds). I'll
take the comment out.

Re: trip.rc and /etc/termcap. It needs a big file. What's a big file
that can be found on System V as well as Berkeley systems? (A big TEXT
file, not /*unix). And note that "passing trip.rc" does not really mean
much at this point--- as a verification suite it is hopelessly
inadequate. I just wanted to push one out the door so people could see
that I do intend to eventually follow this route.

Byron.

Re: first impressions rc 1.3beta

[Robert van Liere]

In message <9202071339.AA11380@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> you write:
    >
    >Configurations for which this is tested:
    >sparc 1,1+,2,ELC	SunOS 4.1.1	gcc 1.40
    >sun 3/80		SunOS 4.1.1	gcc 1.40
    >DecStation 5000	Ultrix 4.1	gcc 1.40
    >IBM RS6000		AIX 3.1.5	native cc
    >

    rc-1.3beta also works as advertised on more orthodox architectures
    such as :

    SGI 4D/35, Indigo	Irix 4.0.1	native cc
    IBM PC/RT		AOS 4.3		gcc 1.39


    -- Robert

first impressions rc 1.3beta

[malte]

I just ftp'ed rc-1.3beta. It seems to be quite good work and it does
deal correctly with trip.rc.

Configurations for which this is tested:
sparc 1,1+,2,ELC	SunOS 4.1.1	gcc 1.40
sun 3/80		SunOS 4.1.1	gcc 1.40
DecStation 5000		Ultrix 4.1	gcc 1.40
IBM RS6000		AIX 3.1.5	native cc

Congratulations!

Something I just want to mention:
In the Makefile it reads 
	"Use bison if you will, but yacc generates a smaller y.tab.c, ..."
which is not true, at least for bison 1.16, the current version.
Also in Makefile, target clean does not remove sigmsgs.c.
Trip.rc does rely on the existance of /etc/termcap which not true
on AIX machines.



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