From: Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 48494@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#48494: 28.0.50; [PATCH] AngeFTP fails on macOS 10.14 with GNU inetutils FTP
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 12:33:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y2c2lib3.fsf@bochannek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s43nu5h.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Tue, 25 May 2021 09:34:50 +0200")
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Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
>> Follow-up to this. The issue on macOS appears to be caused by inetutils
>> picking up libedit for Readline during configuration. Once I installed a
>> proper libreadline and configured with the right prefix, the problem was
>> resolved.
>>
>> Adding the -e comment to the docstring still seems sensible to me.
>
> D'accord. Perhaps you could also add a comment with this fact, and
> referring to bug#48494.
Sounds good. See below.
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diff --git a/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el b/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el
index 04ea809127..3f3a3df8e5 100644
--- a/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el
+++ b/lisp/net/ange-ftp.el
@@ -949,7 +949,11 @@ ange-ftp-gateway-ftp-program-name
:type 'string)
(defcustom ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
- "A list of arguments passed to the FTP program when started."
+ ;; Clients that use the BSD editline instead of the GNU readline
+ ;; library may need to disable command line editing. (Bug#48494)
+ "A list of arguments passed to the FTP program when started.
+Some FTP clients may also require the \"-e\" argument, which disables
+command line editing."
:group 'ange-ftp
:type '(repeat string))
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Alex.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-25 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-18 3:53 bug#48494: 28.0.50; [PATCH] AngeFTP fails on macOS 10.14 with GNU inetutils FTP Alex Bochannek
2021-05-18 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 17:50 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-18 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-19 1:34 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-20 13:02 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-20 17:49 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-20 21:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-20 22:02 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-21 8:25 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-21 17:06 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-21 17:46 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-21 18:12 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-27 21:27 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-24 18:59 ` Alex Bochannek
2021-05-25 7:34 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-25 19:33 ` Alex Bochannek [this message]
2021-05-27 7:52 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-27 23:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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