Bug#834244: libedit2: where_history() does not work. read_history() fails to update history_length.

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 13/08/2016 à 19:35, larice a écrit :
> Package: libedit2
> Version: jessie + stretch
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>    * What led up to the situation?
> Using debian package ngspice.
>
>   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> The debian package ngspice is configured to use libedit (--with-libedit).
> ngspice uses the libedit function where_history() to format a prompt
> for the next command.
> The prompt is expected to increment with every entered command.
> It does not so due to this bug. If ngspice is compiled to use libreadline
> instead of libedit, then it does work.
> I tried to work around, using history_base + history_length instead of where_history().
> This does almost work. But ngspice calls read_history() (part of libedit)
> to read the history from a file. And the implementation if read_history()
> in libedit does not update history_length, causing the very first prompt
> being incorrect.
I think you should report this bug directly to upstream as it is not a
packaging issue.

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