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From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku•dk>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.14.1
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:45:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090217224545.GB19085@diku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090216103400.GB7458@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail•com> wrote Mon, Feb 16, 2009:
> I was ignorant that readline did not work well with ncurses.

Apparently, it can be done if you look at gdb, so if you want to try ...

> Anyway will it be easier to make backspace act as ^H and uparrow to
> recall the last input line?

Probably. It may be rather hard to make backspace work reliably across
different terminals. At least in my gnome-terminal backspace does not
come out as '\b' (or KEY_BACKSPACE), but as 332 (KEY_DC) due to keypad()
translation being enabled. This is one reason why I would like to
introduce an "edit" keymap so it can be made configurable.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15 23:11 [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.14.1 Jonas Fonseca
2009-02-16 10:34 ` bill lam
2009-02-17 22:45   ` Jonas Fonseca [this message]

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