Re: [Cgdb-users] key bindings

[Bob R. <bob...@co...>]

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:56:34PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:36:25PM +0100, William Pursell wrote:
> > Sorry for the delay in checking this.  Although remapping
> > cgdbmodekey works in this version, there is something wrong.
> > The following key sequence causes cgdb to hang, and I'm having
> > to SIGKILL it:
> > 
> > set args foo<esc>bc
> > 
> > Many of the readline commands work as expected (I've
> > checked: xhjklAaIifFtTbwBW), but 'c' and 'd' are locking
> > it up; it looks like rl_callback_read_char() is never
> > returning.
> 
> Aaaa, I see. That's to bad. I'll try to reproduce this behavior, but it
> seems that readline is probably not honoring the callback interface.
> I've had this happen before and hat to patch readline, which is why
> cgdb depends on a fairly recent version of readline.
> 
> If this is true, I'll have to talk with the readline maintainer about
> fixing this problem. He's on vacation for another 2 weeks, afaik. If we
> get a fix, you'll have to build the modified readline with cgdb to
> verify that it works. If this is the issue, it'll probably be a few
> months before readline is releaesd, and cgdb works with an official
> version. In the long run though, it's probably worth it.

Just so you know, I did verify that this was a readline bug. I'm still
waiting for a response from the readline maintainer. In the event that
you have more time than him, you could always modify readline and send
in a patch.

Bob Rossi