Re: Heads up: New readline released

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:48:56AM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com> writes:
>
>> Readline 4.2 has been released.  I'll try to integrate the new version
>> in gdb as soon as I get a spare minute.
>> 
>> I heard that there was some interface change, but I haven't looked at
>> it yet.
>> 
>Any prayer that we can add the type of hooks we really want to be able
>to add, ( I remember someone mentioning, maybe Eli, that we can't do
>symbol completion the "right way" because of readline's insistence on
>word seperator characters) yet?

The readline maintainer is a very reasonable person.  I'm sure he'd accept
a patch if it was in the spirit of the rest of the package.

cgf