From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHSx_Sv6O+q9s64_mFhAv-3=vBsYvPqeSm2mhAisQS4yv2Ra2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89cb918b-3df6-5446-f800-9d9e7b7dde45@cygwin.com>
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Could you be more specific as to what you think is missing[?]
I've mentioned the deficiencies on a couple occasions so far, but am
happy to do so again. The biggest problem is a total lack of search
(I've seen mention of Ctrl+R working in libedit, but is not present in
any mariadb release that I've seen). It also does not support more
intricate emacs editing, such as Esc-Y to cycle through older yanks,
Ctrl+Underscore to undo, Esc-dot arg references, not even Ctrl+W word
delete (it does support Esc-Bksp, but it doesn't join multiple
deletions together). Also, while its history file is a really
unreadable format, it is worse that it has a very nasty habit of
destroying all the saved readline history on first libedit use of a
readline history file (no conversion, no nothing).
Since I often have saved commands that I like to reuse in the history
and find them via Ctrl+R, having libedit totally trash all my mysql
history and then ignore all use of Ctrl+R made for a very annoying
update (I compiled a readline version of the client long ago, and had
to restore the history file from backup). It would have been better if
the libedit version had used a unique history file name, or if the
mariadb package scripts had done a backup (and conversion) of a
non-libedit history file.
..wayne..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-06 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-06 0:30 Keith Christian
2017-11-06 6:45 ` Wayne Davison
2017-11-06 13:25 ` Keith Christian
2017-11-06 19:33 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-11-06 20:52 ` Keith Christian
2017-11-06 22:29 ` Wayne Davison [this message]
2017-11-07 19:50 ` Keith Christian
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