Re: PATCH: Use getche on Win32

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:42:18 -0400
> > From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
> >
> > > > Does Windows offer anything like appropriate job / pgrp semantics?
> > > > That'd really surprise me.
> > >
> > > Windows does support CTRL-C and does have process groups.  I don't know
> > > how close the concept of a windows process group is to UNIX, though.
> >
> > Btw, there are other alternatives to using getche.  You could just set
> > the correct mode using SetConsoleMode.
>
>
> Right, and judging by what MSDN has to say about this, it's precisely
> what Mark needs to get Readline do on Windows what it does on
> platforms that support termios and similar Posix functionalities.
>
> As for Ctrl-C, the same SetConsoleMode can evidently cause it to raise
> SIGINT, as we want.

Strangely, I'd looked at that before, but not fully comprehended.  I'll 
experiment.  ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT may, however, cause certain 
characters (like the arrow keys) never to reach readline, thereby 
preventing some of the key-binding magic.  I'll try a few approaches, 
and report back.

Thanks,

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