On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Ian, all, > > After the announcement, I downloaded and installed the final release of > 6.10.1. At some prior stage, I used the RC1 release, which had the same bug, > but I had generally assumed it to be an RC-phenomenon. Which bug? Well... > > It seems editline has some incompatibility with my terminal. Maybe, I should > configure something differently, but any and all of the control characters I > type and work for all readline based (and all custom line-readers I have come > across), but not for the new ghci. Most annoying is the fact that backspace > doesn't work (instead, the control sequence ^? is printed and pressing enter > results in "lexical error at character '\DEL'"). However, arrow keys (left > ^[[D, up ^[[A, right ^[[C and down ^[[B) and common Ctrl+_ combinations (^d, > ^e, ^a) also give similar errors. It is striking that the lexer does > recognize them as the correct characters (printed error messages doe say > \DEL, \EOT, \ENQ, etc). > > I'm using xterm (X.Org 6.8.99.903(229)) on an OpenSuSE 10.3 system and the > default termcap settings. Any clues? Is this bug known? >
If the arrow keys don't work, it's a good sign that ghc just wasn't built with editline support. To build againt editline, you will probably need to install the libedit-devel package. Hope that helps, -Judah _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
