[linedit-devel] maybe a possible bug?

[Nikodemus Siivola]

2009/5/31 james morris <james at jwm-art.net>:
>
> OK, I've taken the 'trouble' of looking into the source for linedit,
> in particular the command-keys.lisp file, and have seen that the
> functions i was looking for are implemented just not using the keys i
> expected. It would be interesting to know why
> CTRL-any-arrow-direction-key causes a hang tho.
>
> Any chance of getting home+end ctrl-arrow keys working in linedit by
> default?

Sure. I haven't touched linedit in quite a while, but am happy to
merge a patch. :) ...with a bit of luck I might even find time to do
it myself, but that will take a while.

(Sorry for the slow answer, was at ELS 2009 this week.)

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus

>
> Cheers, James.
>
> On 30/5/2009, "james morris" <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm learning CL, and installed linedit chiefly for use within the SBCL
>>REPL.
>>
>>It seems to hang if I press CTRL-arrow (ie to move the cursor at word
>>boundaries instead of a char at a time). CTRL-C does not get out of this
>>hung state and I have to open another terminal and kill sbcl from there.
>>
>>Home and End keys do not work and 'Unknown command "M-O".' is
>>displayed along with a H or F as user-input.
>>
>>I'm running sbcl-1.0.18-debian in Debian Lenny for the AMD64 platform.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>James.
>>
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