Re: PATCH: PR tui/2173: Arrow keys no longer works in breakpoint command list

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-28T16:53:45Z

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:32:05PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> The problem is callback in readline 5.1 is changed. When gdb readline
> callback calls readline (), readline is really confused since although
> it is called from gdb callback, it isn't really in callback state. This
> kludge seems to work for me.

I'm pretty sure this isn't right. I got as far as figuring out that we
should be calling rl_callback_handler_install and
rl_callback_handler_remove at different times, always removing the
handler before calling readline recursively, but I couldn't quite work
out the right conditions.

What would be really best would be to stop calling readline directly;
make the whole thing involve the event loop, just like top level
command line editing. That's going to be a bit of work though.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery