Re: PATCH: Use getche on Win32

[Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:42:18 -0400
>>From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
>>
>>>>Does Windows offer anything like appropriate job / pgrp semantics?
>>>>That'd really surprise me.
>>>
>>>Windows does support CTRL-C and does have process groups.  I don't know
>>>how close the concept of a windows process group is to UNIX, though.
>>
>>Btw, there are other alternatives to using getche.  You could just set
>>the correct mode using SetConsoleMode.
> 
> 
> Right, and judging by what MSDN has to say about this, it's precisely
> what Mark needs to get Readline do on Windows what it does on
> platforms that support termios and similar Posix functionalities.
> 
> As for Ctrl-C, the same SetConsoleMode can evidently cause it to raise
> SIGINT, as we want.

Strangely, I'd looked at that before, but not fully comprehended.  I'll 
experiment.  ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT may, however, cause certain 
characters (like the arrow keys) never to reach readline, thereby 
preventing some of the key-binding magic.  I'll try a few approaches, 
and report back.

Thanks,

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