Re: crash in rl_prep_terminal() without rl_outstream

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/16/20 6:23 PM, Nick Black wrote:
> Chet Ramey left as an exercise for the reader:
> > Are you calling rl_prep_terminal directly, or letting readline call it for
> > you? If you call it before readline can initialize, or are calling it
> > without calling rl_initialize, all bets are off.
>
> Ahhh, that's almost certainly it, then. I'm not calling
> rl_initialize() because I'm using readline in conjunction with
> another character graphics library. This had once worked, but if
> it's not supported behavior, I might need change how I do
> things.

Are you calling readline() or using the callback interface? If
you're using the latter, you should call rl_initialize for more
reasons than to set rl_outstream.

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