Opened 16 months ago
Last modified 13 months ago
#18222 new enhancement
BSD extensions to termios.c_cc
| Reported by: | pulkomandy | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | System/POSIX | Version: | R1/beta4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
We don't have support for VREPRINT, VWERASE and VLNEXT in termios. These are available in both BSD and glibc and provide some extra control characters to reprint the current line, erase a word, and escape the next character.
Extending the c_cc array would break existing apps, how should we go about that? Is it ok to do it for all non-gcc2 ABIs and rebuild all affected software?
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 16 months ago
comment:2 by , 16 months ago
It is needed by neovim. I'm just taking note here after a discussion on IRC with someone trying to compile that.
Not part of POSIX, I think the ticket title is pretty clear about that?
comment:3 by , 16 months ago
Is it possible to patch neovim to not use API extensions? Breaking ABI just for one program seems bad idea.
comment:4 by , 13 months ago
| Type: | bug → enhancement |
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What is motivation of adding it? Is it a part of official POSIX spec? Any important software need it?