[darcs-users] darcs patch: Update documentation to reflect GHC 6.6 ... (and 1 more)

[Eric Kow]

Thanks for the review!

Could you submit an alternative to this patch?  In particular...

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 15:20:54 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > hunk ./src/configuring_darcs.tex 274
> >  you can set the environment variable DARCS\_DONT\_ESCAPE\_ISPRINT to 1
> >  and darcs will display all the printables in the current system locale
> >  instead of just the ASCII ones.
> > -NOTE: This curently does not work on some architectures if darcs is
> > -compiled with GHC~6.4. Some non-ASCII control characters might be printed
> > -and can possibly spoof the terminal.
> 
> I think this is wrong; "Some non-ASCII control characters might be
> printed -and can possibly spoof the terminal" still applies to current
> versions.

I'm not sure what to do about this one.  Do we just get rid of the
'if darcs is compiled with GHC 6.4'?

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Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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