From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: readline eats previous text on line Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:03:38 +1000 Message-ID: <877izefgyt.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <451AEC75.90200@fastmail.fm> <87y7s4ahvc.fsf@zip.com.au> <451B2A4C.2040000@fastmail.fm> <87ejtw8m7r.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <878xk3h52l.fsf@zip.com.au> <87y7s22tgt.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <877izl35jb.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87bqoujltw.fsf@zip.com.au> <878xju1gly.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160093058 11853 80.91.229.2 (6 Oct 2006 00:04:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 02:04:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVdCH-00017P-97 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:04:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVdCG-0004F4-S6 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVdCA-0004Ad-RQ for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVdC8-00046C-UI for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVdC8-00045r-KK for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.2.229] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GVdIt-0006cH-FB for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (mailproxy1.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.162]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E9A3090A7; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:03:59 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2004.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.32.4]) by mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id k9603vKq016639; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:03:58 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GVdBi-0002Ac-9p; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:03:38 +1000 Original-To: Neil Jerram Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <878xju1gly.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:35:05 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:5577 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > > Good point. I believe Jon's going to raise this (inability to do > readline starting from the column after the prompt) with the readline > people. I see there's an rl_already_prompted, though you still have to tell it the prompt string to make redisplay work. I suppose readline.scm could expose that variable if desired. But there's a gazillion global variables in readline, maybe some general mechanism for setting/getting would be nice. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user