Hmm. And this is a cvs pull that was before Bruce actually disabled readline? What locale are you in?
Peter - what OS are you on, and what mingw version? And what locale? I've done my tests on Win XP, and it elcearly does not work (locale = Swedish). I've also talked to Merlin, and he had the same problems (backslash worked bceauase his locale didn't require Alt-Gr for it, but other Alt keysequences didn't) //Magnus > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Kirkwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To add to the confusion it works for me as well - Windows > 2003 with Mingw 3.1.0 > > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > >Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > > >>Readline is pretty badly broken under mingw. Basically, it disables > >>the alt-gr key, which renders psql almost useless on most > locales (no > >>way to type backslash, and a whole lot of other characters, for > >>example). > >> > >> > > > >I can't reproduce that. It works perfectly fine here. > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])