Re: cfdisk's input fields behave awkwardly (in utf8 locale)

[Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:37:36PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:29:23AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> >
> >  Maybe link with GNU readline, to avoid reinventing the wheel.
> 
> yep, and maybe for all fdisks, but it would be probably nice to have
> it optional (--with-readline), and without readline keep it simple and
> stupid.

 Yeah, I think that's the behaviour I've seen from other packages.
When built without readline, they just leave the tty in cooked mode,
so a line of input becomes read(2)able when the user presses return.

 I guess cfdisk already has an arrow-key driven UI, so the wrapper
for readline (that compiles to a fallback #ifndef HAVE_READLINE) would
have to put the tty in/out of cooked mode.

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