rlwrap @0.37 does not support vi delete operator properly.

[veritas.divina@…]

I have the latest version of ports and rlwrap installed. I also use vi editing mode, and if I do something like this:

$ rlwrap cat
This is a sentence

and then I hit

 <ESC> ^

to move the cursor to the beginning of the line. The type

dta

(i.e. execute delete operator over motion command ta (till a). This is supposed to delete "This is " part of the above line, but it doesn't work. I just get a beep.

Note that simpler delete commands like delete word (dw) etc work.

Also,

$ otool -L rlwrap 
rlwrap:
	/usr/lib/libutil.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
	/opt/local/lib/libreadline.6.1.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.1.0)
	/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 125.2.0)
$ 

I expected this to use libncurses in /opt/local/lib, but apparently it links against the one in /usr/lib?

[veritas.divina@…]

Cc Me!

[daitakahashi]

The second issue comes from the order of library search at configure, and the existence of /usr/lib/libcurses.dylib (symlink to /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib). Therefore, it is solved by the correction of configure.

However, also a binary that is linked against a macport's libncurses seems to produce the delete operator problem. So, these two issues, delete operator and link target, may need to consider separately.

[daitakahashi]

this patch will solve the link target issue

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The current version of ncurses installs a libcurses link, so rlwrap's linking should be fine after r86161.

Unless you have reason to believe that the port is doing something wrong, the other issue is probably better handled upstream, especially since the port maintainer doesn't seem to be responsive.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Is this still a problem with the current version?

[veritas.divina@…]

This is still issue in rlwrap 0.41 (I have not tried 0.42), but it is an issue in the github ​https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap version as well (it is not mac ports specific).

[l2dy (Zero King)]

Replying to veritas.divina@…:

This is still issue in rlwrap 0.41 (I have not tried 0.42), but it is an issue in the github ​https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap version as well (it is not mac ports specific).

Please report the issue to that GitHub repository if it's not fixed or reported yet. It's not a MacPorts specific issue and there's nothing we can do here, so I'm closing this ticket.