Re: [Bug-readline] Forwarding input from ncurses to readline

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/17/15 8:20 AM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> I currently have readline reading directly from the TTY. I think this
> will get messy, so I want to handle input and other terminal
> operations exclusively with ncurses (using e.g. getch()) and forward
> the appropriate characters to readline. Is the following an okay
> approach? Will it correctly handle e.g. timeouts?

This approach should work, as long as you're replacing both the function
to read input and the function that says whether input is available.
You may wish to consider handling timeouts to differentiate between
possibly-ambiguous key sequences.

Chet

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