[slang-users] Re: overlong space/tab in command-line revisited

[Christian Ebert <blacktrash@xxxxxxx>]

Hello, 

[slang-users: sorry for my first post being a crosspost, but I'm
not sure into which "department" this belongs]

* Christian Ebert on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:52:28 +0000:
> * Thomas Schultz on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 07:10:00 +0100:
>> IIRC, the error
> 
> It's /only/ a display problem; functionality is not interfered
> with by it.
> 
>> you are getting there is related to pressing <Space> on 
>> a slrn command line/minibuffer, right?
> 
> Almost. This was from my example. I try to update the symptoms as
> best as I can:
> 
> It happens when entering the first (and only the first) <Space>
> or <Tab> (eg. for path completion) on the command-line, not only
> after ^X<Esc>, but in any command:
> 
> Paste from GNU screen:
> 
> #v+
> Temporary file (^G aborts): La                                                                                                                      /Users/chris/LaTeX/
> #v-
> 
> displays as:
> 
> #v+
> Temporary file (^G aborts): La
>                            /Users/chris/LaTeX
> #v-
> 
> no matter how wide the terminal is.
> 
> Pressing after execution ^L always clears the display of the
> additonal line.
> 
> This is reproducable in Apple's Terminal.app and Xterm, with and
> without GNU Screen.
> 
>> Have you updated to slang 2.0.7? 
> 
> $ slsh --version
> slsh version 0.7.7-1; S-Lang version: pre2.1.0-4
> 
> It happens when I compile S-Lang with GNU readline as well -- but
> this might concern slsh only.
> 
>> According to the changelog, John did some work on the readline 
>> interface, so maybe it was some bug that he now fixed.
> 
> I cannot reproduce it slsh, but this might be the wrong place to
> check.

Playing around with: 

$ slrn --version
Slrn 0.9.8.1pl2 [2005-02-17]
	* Note: This version is a developer preview.
S-Lang Library Version: 2.0.0
                        ^^^^^

I found out that this does *not* happen with an /earlier/ version
of S-Lang. Perhaps this gives some clue about what's going on.

c
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