Re: [Bug-apl] Another attention signal issue

[David B. Lamkins]

Thanks, Jüergen.

The real issue, from my perspective, is that APL doesn't report the
ATTENTION message until it sees a newline on input. It seems to me that
typing a ^C should immediately suspend execution and show the ATTENTION
message.

On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 18:23 +0200, Juergen Sauermann wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I have changed readline to display a new line right after ^C, see SVN 382.
> 
> For reasons that I don't fully understand, the next character after ^C 
> will be eaten by
> readline; I tried a number of things to prevent this but haven't succeeded.
> 
> I believe readline will be one of the next things removed from GNU APL.
> 
> /// Jürgen
> 
> 
> On 07/21/2014 02:32 AM, David Lamkins wrote:
> > When the session is not executing APL code, the attention signal is 
> > not handled until the next newline.
> >
> > To see this, enter the characters Control-C, 1, Return.
> >
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