Re: [Bug-readline] vi-mode and python shell

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/5/15 9:59 AM, Carlos Pita wrote:
> Thank you as always, Chet. Worked as announced ;).
> 
> I've wrapped it up inside an Arch PKGBUILD and published it in the AUR
> [1]. I had to symlink 7 libs to 6 in order to keep the system working.
> At first sight I find no issues, but do you think is too rude even for
> a development "do it at your own risk" package? Are there severe
> binary incompatibilities?

There are several incompatibilities sufficient for me to bump the major
version number.  There are a couple of new readline APIs, the significant
one in the callback interface.  The internal readline state word is now an
unsigned long, so there can be more states, and that is a binary
incompatibility.

> Btw, the new mode-in-prompt indicators are cool, is the text configurable?

Yes, there are three new bindable string variables that control the mode
strings.  They undergo the same expansions as key binding sequences, so
you can use the standard set of control and meta characters, and you can
put \001 and \002 in the mode strings, so you can have invisible character
sequences like in the rest of the prompt.

Chet
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