GHCi 6.0 buglet - segfault on input

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak@cse.unsw.edu.au
Wed, 06 Aug 2003 23:55:31 +1000 (EST)


"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote,

> > Yet another unimportant bug that you may or may not want to know
> > about.  In GHCi 6.0 on Red Hat 9, when I (accidentally) hit a function
> > key, GHCi segfaults.
> > 
> > Apparently, the function keys insert 'ESC O x', with varying x's,
> > perhaps it's the ESC that breaks GHCi?
> > 
> > Okay, so it's no big deal.
> 
> Could be a readline bug, but I don't have a RedHat 9 system here to test
> on.  Do you have any non-standard settings, eg. .inputrc?  What terminal
> type?
> 
> Anyone else see similar behaviour?

No problem on my RH9 machine (using gnome-terminal).

Cheers,
Manuel