Re: MinGW version binary gobbledygook error messages?

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Feb-2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:

| Indeed, Octave uses readline to compute the width of the terminal
| to decide how to print matrices.

It actually calls command_editor::terminal_cols() which will call
readline if Octave is configured to use readline.

Currently, the command_editor class does not have a way to set the
terminal width.  I only wrapped the parts of readline that Octave
actually needs.  So the best thing to do if you need this
functionality is to add it to command_editor and the classes derived
from it.  If you skip this step and call rl_* functions directly, they
may not do what you expect if you are linking with a version of Octave
that is not configured to use readline.

jwe