invisible characters in readline - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Reece Hart
Subject invisible characters in readline
Date
Msg-id 1074211075.24547.76.camel@tallac
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Responses Re: invisible characters in readline  (Reece Hart <reece@in-machina.com>)
Re: invisible characters in readline  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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# characters, as for fancy colorized prompts.  This was nearly a direct
# lift from bash-2.05b's lib/readline/display.c, per guidance from Chet Ramey.
#
# Is pset.useReadline used anywhere? It's set to 0 by default, even when
# readline really is in use, and therefore I ignored it.
--- postgresql-7.4.1/src/bin/psql/prompt.c-orig 2004-01-15 10:47:05.000000000 -0800
+++ postgresql-7.4.1/src/bin/psql/prompt.c 2004-01-15 14:21:27.000000000 -0800
@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@
#include "common.h"
#include "variables.h"
+#include "input.h"

#ifdef WIN32
@@ -242,4 +243,17 @@
break;

+     case '[':
+     case ']':
+#if defined (USE_READLINE)
+   buf[0] = '\001';
+   buf[1] = (*p == '[') ? RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE : RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE;
+   buf[2] = '\0';
+#else
+   /* Should we remove text between %[ and %] ?
+ e.g., for fancy prompts on dumb terminals??
+       If so, under what conditions? */
+#endif /* USE_READLINE */
+   break;
+ /* end case [ or ] */
+
/* execute command */
case '`':

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