Re: bracketed-paste-mode and gdb

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/15/22 12:21 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:

> I've tried two things, neither seem to quite work, as I don't think I
> quite have all the information that I need.  I have a rough readline
> patch below which I think solves the issue, but I'd like to explain
> what I've tried so far, I'm hoping there might be a solution that
> doesn't involve changing readline.
> 
> My first thought was that I could use rl_deprep_term_function,
> something like:
> 
>    rl_deprep_term_function = gdb_rl_deprep_term_function;
> 
>    void
>    gdb_rl_deprep_term_function ()
>    {
>      if (/* Did we just receive eof? */)
>        printf ("quit\n");
>      rl_deprep_terminal ();
>    }
> 
> Obviously, I'm struggling with what the if condition should be.

You can test your hypothesis by temporarily using _rl_eof_found as the
`if' condition.

I imagine it will work. If it does, we can either add a new state, like
your patch proposes, or change the previously-private variable to a
public one by removing the leading underscore.


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