Message-Id: Date: Wed, 19 May 99 10:53:13 MET DST From: Michel de Ruiter To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gdb 4.18 for DJGPP (alpha) Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In your letter dated Wed, 19 May 1999 10:25:52 +0300 (IDT), you 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). This has nothing to do with the GO32-defines, used to support more than a dumb terminal. The termios_enable_function_and_arrow_keys or whatever it is called activates the PC editing keys IIRC. Currently, the application that *uses* Readline should call it. You could also look at the Readline 4.0 in Mark's (beta) Bash 2.03 port. > > 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. Maybe gdb should be upgraded to Readline 4.0, which can be found in Bash. I also stripped the multibyte support from the patch to 4.0 I sent to Chet Ramey recently, because I don't know anything about it. I have put my mail to Chet on http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter/rl40.dif now, for whoever is interested. Hope this helps. Groente, Michel.