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Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Dan Langille schrieb:
>> Martin Simmons wrote:
>>> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:56:21 -0500, Dan Langille said:
>>>> Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>>>> I get wildly varying results with line editing in bconsole between
>>>>> different systems. On some systems, I can edit the command on the
>>>>> screen as expected, with backspace erasing characters from the end as
>>>>> usual, but when I finally type enter what gets sent as command is
>>>>> obviously not what I last saw on the screen. On others, hitting
>>>>> backspace once skips to a new line as if it had deleted the entire
>>>>> command, so line editing is guesswork at best, and never seems to
>>>>> result in what I intended. [...]
>>>>> On a single one of my systems, line editing actually works as
>>>>> expected,
>>>>> but I don't know why.
> [...]
>>>> I suspect readline.  Different versions and/or options.
>>>
>>> That depends on whether readline is being used.  I think the default
>>> is to use
>>> the internal conio instead.
>>
>> Come up with a test for determining what is being used and let the
>> investigations begin.  Will this suffice?
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ldd `which bconsole`
>> /usr/local/sbin/bconsole:
>>          libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x280a2000)
>>          libhistory.so.6 => /usr/lib/libhistory.so.6 (0x280cf000)
>>          libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x280d6000)
>>          libpthread.so.2 => /lib/libpthread.so.2 (0x28115000)
>>          libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x2813a000)
>>          libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28143000)
>>          libssl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x28230000)
>>          libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x2825e000)
>>          libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x28351000)
>>          libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x2841c000)
>>          libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28432000)
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $
> 
> This is the machine where line editing works:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ldd /usr/sbin/bconsole
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f76000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f5f000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f5b000)
>         libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb7f18000)
>         libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7dd2000)
>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7ce4000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7cbe000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7cb2000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7b7f000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fb6000)
>         libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b6c000)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>
> 
> This is one of those where hitting backspace clears the displayed line:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ldd /usr/sbin/bconsole
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f1b000)
>         libtermcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0xb7ef7000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ee0000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7edc000)
>         libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb7e99000)
>         libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb7d53000)
>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7c65000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7c3f000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7c33000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7b00000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f1c000)
>         libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7aed000)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>

The difference would appear to be ncurses, would it not? Or am I
oversimplifying?

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