Re: New Version of libreadline leads to problems in GNU Octave

[frederik]

I'm a little confused, is there an option for keeping bracketed paste mode 
enabled and just fixing Octave? Wasn't there a reason for wanting this feature 
in the first place? ...

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:00:54PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 11/19/20 2:42 PM, Lars Kindermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Debian testing yesterday updated libreadline8 to 8.1~rc2-2
> > Since then the GUI of GNU Octave (all versions) throws the error message
> >
> > "undecodable token: \001b(hex)[?2004l"
> >
> > See: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59483
> >
> > Any idea what the cause may be?
>
> This is the termination sequence for bracketed paste mode, which is
> enabled by default in readline-8.1:
>
> rlprivate.h:#define BRACK_PASTE_INIT    "\033[?2004h"
> rlprivate.h:#define BRACK_PASTE_FINI    "\033[?2004l\r"
>
>
> You can either require the user to disable it, disable it from inside
> octave:
>
> rl_variable_bind ("enable-bracketed-paste", "off");
>
> or set the terminal to "dumb"
>
> rl_terminal_name = "dumb";
>
> in which case it's turned off.
>
> Chet
>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/