From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18668 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2005 18:14:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18644 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jun 2005 18:14:45 -0000 Received: from thelemkes.ca (HELO shoal.thelemkes.ca) (66.96.18.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:14:45 +0000 Received: from [192.168.62.32] (unknown [192.168.62.32]) by shoal.thelemkes.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31F420E94; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:14:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: PATCH: Readline for MinGW From: James Lemke To: Mark Kettenis Cc: Mark Mitchell , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, bug-readline@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200506120731.j5C7VMNO030966@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> References: <200506081742.j58Hg6O0017392@sethra.codesourcery.com> <200506120731.j5C7VMNO030966@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1118859280.13055.93.camel@keel.thelemkes.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:14:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:31, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:42:06 -0700 > From: Mark Mitchell > > The problems solved by this patch are: > > 1. Windows does not have termcap/curses/etc. So, we provide a stub > files that contains basic implementations of the relevant > functions. That permits the remainder of the code to continue > using the POSIX interfaces unchanged. > > 2. The arrow keys use different extended key sequences on Windows than > on POSIX systems; we introduce readline macros to transform the > Windows sequences into their POSIX equivalents. This approach > again confines the Windows-isms to a single point. FWIW, Mark's patch built fine for me. -- James Lemke jim@wasabisystems.com Orillia, Ontario http://www.wasabisystems.com