From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pasanda.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24726>; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:55:45 -0500 Received: (qmail 9308 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 1998 10:46:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 9304 invoked from network); 11 Feb 1998 10:45:58 -0000 Received: from nan.cygnus.co.uk (tgoodwin@194.130.39.19) by dns.cygnus.co.uk with SMTP; 11 Feb 1998 10:45:58 -0000 In-Reply-To: <199802102326.SAA10989@shell.clark.net> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: "rc" shell maintainer? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 05:45:36 -0500 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: > > 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. (The trip failure is documented in the README file, for what it's worth.) > I probably posted a patch... Aha... Yes I did, but Tim never picked > it up. rc-1.5b2 was purely an autoconfiscation of rc-1.5betadev-1; I didn't include any patches that had gone to the list. This was the quickest way for me to get on top of the project. > Look back through the archives for a message from me which > moves print_prompt2 from lex.c to input.c amoung other things. OK, I've got that, and will have a look at it. Thanks, Tim.