Check for readline 2.2 features. This should make it possible to
compile readline.c again with GNU readline versions 2.0 or 2.1; this
ability was removed in readline.c rev. 2.49. Apparently the older
versions are still in widespread deployment on older Solaris
installations. With an older readline, completion behavior is subtly
different (a space is always added).
SF #558432: Prevent Annoying ' ' from readline (Holker Krekel).
readline in all python versions is configured
to append a 'space' character for a successful
completion. But for almost all python expressions
'space' is not wanted (see coding conventions PEP 8).
For example if you have a function 'longfunction'
and you type 'longf<TAB>' you get 'longfunction '
as a completion. note the unwanted space at the
end.
The patch fixes this behaviour by setting readline's
append_character to '\0' which means don't append
anything. This doesn't work with readline < 2.1
(AFAIK nowadays readline2.2 is in good use).
An alternative approach would be to make the
append_character
accessable from python so that modules like
the rlcompleter.py can set it to '\0'.
[Ed.: I think expecting readline >= 2.2 is fine. If a completer wants
another character they can append that to the keyword in the list.]
This was submitted by Moshe, but apparently he's too busy to check it
in himself. He wrote:
Here is a function in GNU readline called add_history,
which is used to manage the history list. Though Python
uses this function internally, it does not expose it to
the Python programmer. This patch adds direct interface
to this function with documentation.
This could be used by friendly modules to "seed" the
history with commands.
This patch allows the readline module to build cleanly with GNU
readline 4.2 without breaking the build for earlier GNU readline
versions. The configure script checks for the presence of
rl_completion_matches in libreadline.
always:
- #undef HAVE_CONFIG_H (because otherwise chardefs.h tries to include
strings.h)
- #include readline.h and history.h
and we never declare any readline function prototypes ourselves.
This makes it compile with readline 4.2, albeit with a few warnings.
Some of the remaining warnings are about completion_matches(), which
is renamed to rl_completion_matches().
I've tested it with various other versions, from 2.0 up, and they all
seem to work (some with warnings) -- but only on Red Hat Linux 6.2.
Fixing the warnings for readline 4.2 would break compatibility with
3.0 (and maybe even earlier versions), and readline doesn't seem to
have a way to test for its version at compile time, so I'd rather
leave the warnings in than break compilation with older versions.
This fixes the first half of bug #110611: the immediate exit when ^C
is hit when readline and threads are configured.
Also added a new module variable, readline.library_version.
handlers "return void", according to ANSI C.
Removed the new Py_RETURN_FROM_SIGNAL_HANDLER macro.
Left RETSIGTYPE in the config stuff, because it's not clear to
me that others aren't relying on it (e.g., extension modules).
