Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:25:52 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Michel de Ruiter <mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Michel de Ruiter wrote:

> All that is
> really needed is building bare GNU termcap and Readline for DJGPP and
> not providing any /etc/termcap, resulting in a dumb terminal.

I'm not sure I understand.  Using termcap will not solve all the
problems (at least those I have in mind), unless you either disable
usage of termios or modify termios to map the PC editing keys to the
escape sequences that readline expects.  Otherwise, we will still have
to live with Ctrl-F and Ctrl-D instead of Right-arrow and DEL (I
personally don't mind, but many PC users do).

> The (old) Readline zips on Simtelnet contains most changes IIRC,
> applied by someone else (because I was too lazy to build them :),
> based on http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter/rl22.dif .

I looked at the package on SimTel and will try to incorporate most of
its changes (with the exception of the multibyte support) into GDB's
version of readline.