Re: [Bug-readline] [PING] Fix mingw support for Home, End, Insert and Delete keys

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/24/13 5:36 AM, Pierre Muller wrote:
>   Hi Chet,
> 
>   finally it is much easier than
> what I expected...
> 
>   We can simply use the fact that
> the key sequence can be encoded as rl_translate_key  
> returns a char array and a length of this array,
> thus the '\0' value is not a problem anymore.
>   Thus using "\\000P" as a key sequence works like a charm!
> See the patch below.
> 
> 
>   Can this also be integrated in readline development?

Sure.  We will see how successful it is in the places where readline uses
the key sequence as a string.

Chet
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