PATCH: MinGW readline -- revised

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:41:09PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:39:30PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> + #ifdef __MINGW32__
>> +       /* On Windows, use a special routine to read a single  character
>> +        from the console.  (Otherwise, no characters are available
>> +        until the user hits the return key.)  */
>> +       if (isatty (fileno (stream)))
>> +       return getch ();
>> + #endif
>
>> This doesn't look right.  Shouldn't there be an ifdef there?  It's a
>> minor point but it looks like this would potentially produce dead code.
>
>I'm not quite sure what you mean - but if you're talking about the code
>after the return statement, it looks like something's gone wrong with
>the indendation in this bit.  Getch is only for consoles.

I forgot that getch was only for consoles.  Somewhow I thought it could be
used for any stdin.  Silly me.  Windows.

cgf