No worries, I'd rather have it twice than not at all :-) Thank you all for the helpful tipps. We ended up knowing a lot more about Haskell. The easiest solution however, was to compile it all into an application - tadaa, deleting works as wished for.
Regards, Torsten Am 05.11.2009 um 02:00 schrieb Ben Millwood: > 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