[CWB] Display bug in the cqp shell

Hannah Kermes h.kermes at mx.uni-saarland.de
Sat Nov 24 12:24:23 CET 2012


we sometimes experience similar problems (in class) when accessing CQP 
on a remote server using putty ssh, but we cannot make out a pattern as 
to when it occurs. In our case it often helped simply to restart the CQP 
process.

Ciao
Hannah

Am 23.11.2012 20:31, schrieb Stefan Evert:
>> When using cqp I sometimes experience a nasty bug, when the input in the shell shifts up by one line and editing the previous query becomes impossible. I tried switching coloring off and it helped in gnome3 but not in gnome 2 where the bug persists. The only solution is to restart cqp.
>> Any ideas how to fix this? Is there a 'reset' command or something?
> Which version of CQP are you running?
>
> It's probably a bug in your terminal emulator.  I used to have similar problems, but don't remember which particular terminal program they appeared in.
>
> If you're running CQP v3.0, it's possible that the editline library used for command-line editing isn't compatible with all terminals. Perhaps upgrading to v3.4+, which uses GNU Readline instead, might help.
>
> Best,
> Stefan
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