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Re: PATCH: Readline for MinGW

From: James Lemke <jim at wasabisystems dot com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, bug-readline at gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:14:41 -0400
Subject: Re: PATCH: Readline for MinGW
References: <200506081742.j58Hg6O0017392@sethra.codesourcery.com> <200506120731.j5C7VMNO030966@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:31, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:42:06 -0700
>    From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
> 
>    The problems solved by this patch are: 
> 
>    1. Windows does not have termcap/curses/etc.  So, we provide a stub
>       files that contains basic implementations of the relevant
>       functions.  That permits the remainder of the code to continue
>       using the POSIX interfaces unchanged.
> 
>    2. The arrow keys use different extended key sequences on Windows than
>       on POSIX systems; we introduce readline macros to transform the
>       Windows sequences into their POSIX equivalents.  This approach
>       again confines the Windows-isms to a single point.

FWIW, Mark's patch built fine for me.

-- 
James Lemke   jim@wasabisystems.com   Orillia, Ontario
http://www.wasabisystems.com

References:
- PATCH: Readline for MinGW
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: PATCH: Readline for MinGW
  - From: Mark Kettenis

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