Re: Readline

[Annette/Gottfried <Annette.Warlich@t-online.de>]

Martin -

 I don't know, whether this is relevant (since you seem
 to have got sufficient answer already), but it adresses
 readline rather than pari/gp.
 In the new versions of readline (called by the
 new versions of pari) readln sends a communication-
 buffer different from earlier versions. While in
 earlier versions each communication started
 with a clean buffer in the new versions you have littered
 previous commands, only marked with deletion-characters.
 I don't know how Vista handles this, and I don't know
 whether this is a problem at all with standard programs,
 but, for instance, it blocked me to upgrade my paritty-
 utility because the communication-buffer is unpredictable
 for me yet.

Gottfried Helms

Martin Larsen wrote:
> I have some problems with this version on Vista:
>
>                  GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.3.4 (released)
>           i686 running cygwin (ix86/GMP-4.2.1 kernel) 32-bit version
> compiled: Jul 12 2008, gcc-3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 
> 0.125)
>              (readline v5.2 enabled, extended help not available)
>
> Home, End and Delete key dosn't work anymore.
>
> If I press ^V and Home Pari responds
> ^[[1~
>
> Then I tried this in .inputrc:
> "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
>
> It still doesn't work.
>
> I have earlier reported a serious strange problem occurring when you 
> invoke Pari with a script, say:
>
> gp start.txt
>
> In start.txt I have a function myfun with variable declared like this:
> local(myvar);
>
> This variable should not have any relevance outside myfun, agree?
>
> But this variable is not removed from global function (sic) namespace.
>
> Here is what happens:
>
> > myvar(n)= n*n
>  ***   unused characters: myvar(n)=n*n
>
> I produced this samplescript if you would try:
> > \u
> {myfun(n) = local(myvar); myvar=7;n*myvar}
>
> Regards
> Martin