Oops, I clicked "reply" instead of "reply to all". Duplicating the message below. I suppose this means someone is going to get two copies of this. Sorry someone!
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Torsten Otto <t-otto-n...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> When we read the user's input through >>> t <- getLine >> it is not possible to delete typos before hitting enter and thereby sending >> the input off to the system (at least in OS X, bash). I didn't find that >> terribly problematic, but of course it is a bit of a show stopper from their >> point of view. >> > > As people have said it's worth checking what buffering settings you > are using (especially note that ghci changes some interesting settings > in relation to how input is handled, and compiled code may behave > differently), but it might also be worth checking the terminal > application's preferences to see if there are settings related to the > interpretation of the backspace key that you need to twiddle one way > or the other. In particular, if you are finding that pressing delete > makes ^H appear on the input line instead of deleting things, or if > pressing ctrl-H deletes stuff where the delete key fails to do so, it > might be a problem with your terminal rather than with your program. > This is only based on what I vaguely remember from faffing with the > Mac Terminal application some time ago when it wouldn't co-operate > with screen, but it may be worth a look. > > yours, > Ben Millwood > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe