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Subject: Re: Readline bug
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Date: 19 Jan 90 22:51:52 GMT
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bothner@CS.WISC.EDU writes:

>Just in case this bug has not already been reported ...
>The start_insert function in readline/readline.c
>is broken for terminal descriptors that support
>both im (insert mode) and IC/ic (insert characters)

This is fixed in the stuff I sent to Brian.  An important caveat for
all you avid termcap terminal description writers (like me): do NOT
include both im/ei and ic UNLESS you must be in INSERT MODE to do
INSERT CHARACTER, otherwize anything that uses RMS's algorithm (like
emacs or the new readline code I sent Brian) will work wrong!!!

		-- Paul Placeway
		   <pplaceway@bbn.com>