Thanks, Jüergen. The real issue, from my perspective, is that APL doesn't report the ATTENTION message until it sees a newline on input. It seems to me that typing a ^C should immediately suspend execution and show the ATTENTION message.
On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 18:23 +0200, Juergen Sauermann wrote: > Hi David, > > I have changed readline to display a new line right after ^C, see SVN 382. > > For reasons that I don't fully understand, the next character after ^C > will be eaten by > readline; I tried a number of things to prevent this but haven't succeeded. > > I believe readline will be one of the next things removed from GNU APL. > > /// Jürgen > > > On 07/21/2014 02:32 AM, David Lamkins wrote: > > When the session is not executing APL code, the attention signal is > > not handled until the next newline. > > > > To see this, enter the characters Control-C, 1, Return. > > > > > > -- > > "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." > > Albert Einstein > > > > > > http://soundcloud.com/davidlamkins > > http://reverbnation.com/lamkins > > http://reverbnation.com/lcw > > http://lamkins-guitar.com/ > > http://lamkins.net/ > > http://successful-lisp.com/ >
