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Reline doesn't respect EOF from the terminal #501
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Description
When the terminal uses a different control character for EOF, it's not respected by reline.
By comparison with readline:
$ stty eof ^K # stty eof ^D to restore
$ ruby -rreadline -e Readline.readline
a^A^D^D^KI type a, then ^A to go at the beginning of the line, then ^D to remove the a, the second ^D doesn't do anything, but ^K sends the end-of-file and ends the process.
$ stty eof ^K # stty eof ^D to restore
$ ruby -rreadline -e Readline.readline
a^A^K^KI type a, then ^A to go at the beginning of the line, then ^K removes until the end of the line (kill-line), the second ^K sends the end-of-file and ends the process.
With reline:
$ stty eof ^K # stty eof ^D to restore
$ ruby -rreline -e Reline.readline
a^A^D^DI type a, then ^A to go at the beginning of the line, then ^D to remove the a, the second ^D sends the end-of-file and ends the process.
$ stty eof ^K # stty eof ^D to restore
$ ruby -rreline -e Reline.readline
a^A^K^K^DI type a, then ^A to go at the beginning of the line, then ^K removes until the end of the line (kill-line), the second ^K doesn't do anything, but ^D sends the end-of-file and ends the process.
Terminal Emulator
Terminal.app on macOS 13.1
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hasumikin commentedon Jan 18, 2023
It reproduces on Linux, too.
That's because Reline doesn't handle stty's modification, I guess.
@etiennebarrie
Could you tell me if there is some real-world troublesome case when the EOF attribute is modified?
etiennebarrie commentedon Jan 18, 2023
I don't have a real world use case, I personally don't modify stty like this.
I was just curious because I was trying to get the Del key in emacs mode to work like readline.
Reline::ANSI::CAPNAME_KEY_BINDINGS["kdch1"] = :em_deletein my.irbrcmostly worked, but now the Del key was also behaving like Ctrl-D for end-of-file. To fix this I can hardcode Ctrl-D but I investigated a bit more to understand where Ctrl-D was coming from and if I could avoid hardcoding.So for now I pushed #504, hard-coding Ctrl-D for EOF.