Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Ctrl-D does not terminate maxima

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > GCL will use GNU readline by default, and this is a good thing
> > (e.g. command completion, command-line editing).  GCL will
> > automatically determine if the controlling terminal is readline
> > capable (e.g. vt100, xterm ...)  before enabling readline, and bypass
> > readline initialization if the terminal is too 'dumb' (e.g. emacs
> > shell buffer) In the latter case, Control-d works just fine -- in the
> > former it cannot, because readline needs to map the control keys.  I
> > suppose a nice feature to add would be an environment variable which
> > could disable readline initialization, so that one could get this
> > behavior as desired at runtime even on xterms, etc.  But really, I
> > think you'll get a lot more out of readline in maxima than you lose
> > with Ctrl-d when readline is initialized.
> > 
> 
> Well, but I just wonder how clisp handles similar
> situation - it works with readline support and understand
> Ctrl-D as well?
> 

Its an oddity of the GCL terminal input code.  I'm looking at it, but
at low priority.

Take care,

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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