A shotgun approach would be to create a screen editor of sorts, with a repl in it. That is probably overkill.
On 05/03/16 16:18, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi all, > > since early versions of PicoLisp I have a problem with the behavior of > terminals. > > It concerns the REPL line editor in debug mode, the way how a backspace > behaves across a wrapped line. > > > To move backwards in the line, the line editor sends a Ctrl-H to the > terminal. This happens not only explicitly (e.g. when the user types 'h' > in vi-mode), but also implicitly when the line is refreshed. > > The problem arises when the line gets longer than the number of columns. > Terminals show different behavior here: Some move back to the last > column of the previous line (this is OK), and some stay in the first > column of the next line (this results in a mess). > > XTerm is OK, but the linux consoles (tty1 ... tty7) are not. Gnome seems > to have a config option for that. > > > It would be nice if we could control it directly frow within the line > editor. I tried various 'stty' and tcsetattr(termios) parameters, but > without avail. > > Does anybody have an idea? > > ♪♫ Alex > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
