Re: reactive keyboard for solaris?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Jeremy Cook <http://www.ii.uib.no/~Jeremy.Cook>
 > Date: Thu  Nov  7, 10:42am
 >
 > Robert,
 > Thanks for your help. I really like RK. I used it frequently some 5-6
 > years ago
 > but then stopped for some reason. I remember it was very helpful to
 > me then. Infact I remember nearly falling off my chair when I
 > started to type in a very long command sequence with pipes, tees and
 > lots
 > of other stuff and it managed to guess the entire thing after only 4-5 
 > chars even though I'd never typed that sequence before in my life. It
 > would be nice if there were more users such that there is a critical
 > mass of interested people. I'm not bothered about the rksetup,
 > but you could perhaps make rk ignore a missing .rk.defaults? I found
 > that rk refuses to start if this file is missing, but 'touch
 > .rk.defaults'
 > fixes the problem.

I think the '-d' flag will do this.  But I agree -- this should be the default
(so to speak).

 > It also annoyingly complains:
 > 
 > LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Undefined variable
 > 
 > if this envar is not set.

That's interesting!  I'll look into it when I can...

 > From: Jeremy Cook <http://www.ii.uib.no/~Jeremy.Cook>
 > Date: Thu  Nov  7,  2:13pm
 >
 > Robert,
 > 
 > I took a look at setup.c. With a bit of debugging and purify I managed
 > to
 > stop it crashing.

Ah, you have access to purify!  Lucky you!

 > It will now work atleast with xterm, however rk
 > has problems if I set a prime file in rksetup. Anyway I hope this might
 > help you. rksetup really needs a revamp so that it uses curses properly,
 > or 
 > so that it uses tcl/tk or some such.

Right.  rk needs a revamp.  The main thing, even more important than fixing
rksetup, is to use the Expect library for dealing with pseudo-ttys, instead
of having platform-dependent code.  I _think_ Expect works on Windows and
that would be a totally big win for me...

Tcl/Tk would be great!  You could even use TkCurses.  I definitely do not
have time to work on this right now, though.

 > It appears that setup is missing
 > some of the options that rk uses.

Hmm, 'nother problem.  I may have time over the holidays.