[IPython-user] New pyreadline breaks autoindent

[Jörgen Stenarson]

Jerry McRae skrev:
> sorry for the delayed response.  I wanted to make sure I did some 
> testing.  comments below

No problem

> 
> On 5/14/07, *Jörgen Stenarson jorgen.stenarson-at-bostream.nu 
> <http://jorgen.stenarson-at-bostream.nu> |Python projects/jml|* <... 
> <mailto:...>> wrote:
> 
>     Jerry McRae skrev:
>      > I get the same results in WinXP.  In addition, with pyreadline 1.4.3,
>      > the PgUp and PgDn keys no longer work [to move through your
>     output buffer]
>     Fixed in svn
> 
> 
> confirmed .  BTW, do you know how I can change it to go a FULL page up 
> with the PgUp?  It is REALLY annoying to have the PgUp key move at only 
> 1/4 page at a time.
At the moment this is hardcoded and located in a rather inconvenient 
place, I will try to fix this but it will probably be a few weeks before 
I have the time. Do you want to scroll a fixed number of lines or a full 
window?

> 
>      >
>      > Another "bug" is the the ^k "kill-line" command copies into the
>      > ClipBoard (bad) in addition to clearing to EOL (good).  I do NOT
>     want my
>      > clipboad updated unless I ask for it.  My clipboard monitor
>     records all
>      > cut or copy operations.
>     The reason for this behaviour was I wanted to be able to yank after a
>     kill. This was the easiest way to implement that. However I can see
>     that it is not ideal behaviour so I have started to create a separate
>     kill-ring, which at this time will only hold a single kill.
> 
>     So I think this issue is also fixed in svn now (if you update make sure
>     your pyreadlineconfig binds ctrl-y to yank and not paste if you want to
>     be able to yank after a kill)
> 
> 
> ^k works great.  ESC works much better now!
> 
>     Anyone else have an opinion on how the kill ring should be implemented
>     in relation to clipboard?
> 
> 
> I don't know what the terms "yank" and "kill-ring" meant, or how I would 
> use them, sorry. 

This is a gnu-readline thing, I'm not that sure my self...

> 
>     <snip>
> 
> 
> One [possibly] new bug:  The feature that updates the window's caption 
> it great!  However, on Windows, if I am in a folder that contains 
> directory names with spaces in them (like "Richard Thompson - [1991]  
> Rumor and Sigh"), then pressing the TAB changes all the spaces to 
> backslash-space, INSTEAD of surrounding with quotes.  (this is as it 
> was), HOWEVER, if I accidentally hit <enter> instead of <esc>, it 
> displays a couple errors, then EVERY TIME I use the CD command after 
> this I get the error:
> 
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'ret' referenced before assignment
> 
> at line 33 in platutils_win32.py

I don't remember where this is implemented, is it in ipython or 
pyreadline? I will have to look into this later the coming week, I don't 
have a windows box available today.

/Jörgen