On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkow...@cygwin.com> wrote: > Could you be more specific as to what you think is missing[?]
I've mentioned the deficiencies on a couple occasions so far, but am happy to do so again. The biggest problem is a total lack of search (I've seen mention of Ctrl+R working in libedit, but is not present in any mariadb release that I've seen). It also does not support more intricate emacs editing, such as Esc-Y to cycle through older yanks, Ctrl+Underscore to undo, Esc-dot arg references, not even Ctrl+W word delete (it does support Esc-Bksp, but it doesn't join multiple deletions together). Also, while its history file is a really unreadable format, it is worse that it has a very nasty habit of destroying all the saved readline history on first libedit use of a readline history file (no conversion, no nothing). Since I often have saved commands that I like to reuse in the history and find them via Ctrl+R, having libedit totally trash all my mysql history and then ignore all use of Ctrl+R made for a very annoying update (I compiled a readline version of the client long ago, and had to restore the history file from backup). It would have been better if the libedit version had used a unique history file name, or if the mariadb package scripts had done a backup (and conversion) of a non-libedit history file. ..wayne.. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
