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Re: [Bug-readline] rl_point, multibyte strings, and the cursor position


From: Ulf Magnusson
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] rl_point, multibyte strings, and the cursor position
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:43:50 +0100

I'll try it. Thanks for the suggestion!

/Ulf

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:
On 2/16/15 10:26 AM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> Okay, I'll roll my own then.

If you dont't have invisible characters in the prompt string or handle line
wrapping, wcswidth(3) can do the job for you.  Just assume the line buffer
contains multibyte characters, convert it to a wide character string with
mbstowcs(3), and compute the number of columns to get to the buffer index
indicated by rl_point.  If you want to make it easier, strdup
rl_line_buffer and null-terminate the new string at rl_point before calling
mbstowcs.

Chet
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