[racket-dev] [plt] Push #25290: master branch updated

Thanks for figuring this out!

It looks like "Patch 3" or readline 6.2 fixes this bug:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-07/msg00002.html
but I don't know how to detect that, or whether any systems are
shipping it.

Sam

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:39 PM,  <ryanc at racket-lang.org> wrote:
>
>
> ae843f9 Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at racket-lang.org> 2012-08-28 23:13
> :
> | readline: prefer 5 (fast) over 6 (slow)
> |
> | Running racket in a terminal with readline 6 has excruciating delays
> | in response and bizarrely slow pasting. The culprit is probably a bug
> | in readline v6.2 that causes the rl_event_hook to be called repeatedly
> | even when input is ready. See also the discussion here:
> | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00005.html
> |
> | It's not clear whether racket can work around the issue in readline 6,
> | but it can at least use readline 5 instead when it is available.



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