Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3

[Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, 15 May 2017 15:59:48, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00238.html

Bumping this thread because it is a new month. Also of note, it is now over 5
months since my initial report, and the errant version of readline has not been
patched or rolled back:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-02/msg00014.html

and I did post the potential problem code back in April:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00176.html


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