On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> The escape key erasing input back to the beginning of the line is Command
> Prompt or cmd.exe behavior.
cmd.exe is just a shell that uses the console (if the standard handles
are console handles). The console window is hosted by conhost.exe. I
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 11:17 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> If "readline" is imported, "input" gets "readline" capabilities.
> It also loses the ability to import control characters. It doesn't
> matter where "readline" is imported; an import in some library
> module can trigger this. You can try this
I was typing in a hurry. There are several unreadable items below. Let me
correct myself...
On 09Jul2016 09:45, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Perhaps the Windows console is treating ESC specially, apparently as "line
erase", discarduing any preceeding text. Hence your results.
[...]
- accept this, a
On 7/8/2016 7:17 PM, John Nagle wrote:
If "readline" is imported, "input" gets "readline" capabilities.
It also loses the ability to import control characters. It doesn't
matter where "readline" is imported; an import in some library
module can trigger this. You can try this with a simple te
On 08Jul2016 16:17, John Nagle wrote:
If "readline" is imported, "input" gets "readline" capabilities.
It also loses the ability to import control characters. It doesn't
matter where "readline" is imported; an import in some library
module can trigger this. You can try this with a simple tes
