On 5/15/17 2:19 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

>>    git checkout readline-7.0-alpha
>>
>> for the first bad commit, I found that the change to the "rl_insert"
>> function in
>> "text.c" breaks pasting and Alt codes with "chcp.com 65001". Can you
>> work with
>> this?
>>
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/text.c?h=readline-7.0-alpha#n891
> 
> It's code I'm not familiar with, so I'm adding upstream bug-bash in the
> hopes that Chet might have an answer to why this code was changed, and
> if he is aware that the change may have broken things on Cygwin.

It was inspired by the discussion starting with

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2015-05/msg00007.html

The idea is to optimize pasted input using the assumption that it will be
mostly composed of characters that map to self-insert, and you can batch
read those characters and perform one display update.

The way to test whether or not a character will be inserted into the
editing buffer is to see whether or not it maps directly to self-insert.
If that's the problem, there will have to be a cygwin-specific fix; it
works elsewhere.

-- 
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