Peter W. Draper wrote on 02 March 2004 16:16:
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> yes libreadline is around in cygwin (and used by things like
> the bash shell naturally), but as far as I can tell the
> terminal handling in PCS isn't based on it (the history of
> the file goes back to '92, readline will not have been an option back
> then).
No - the PCS terminal handling is NOT based on readline. I have painful
memories of there being several incarnations of terminal handling in
existence for Unix and that PCS uses one (termios()???) supported by all our
platforms. PCS switches between single character and line based input as
necessary. I gues that, as cygwin supports readline, that the OS probably
has sufficient terminal control ability - but as, AFAIR, termios is the most
common basic control system I am surprised that it does not support it.
Brian
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