dumb terminal support for jshell

[Jan Lahoda]

Hi Logan,

I've filled:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8176391

Jan

On 8.3.2017 16:45, Logan O'Sullivan Bruns wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just signed the OCA and had a couple of questions on how to best get
> started. Most immediately there is a bug I was hoping to help fix.
> Partly because it impacts folks like myself use Emacs heavily.
>
> I've noticed that jshell in jdk9 doesn't currently work
> well within the shell mode of Emacs. A very minor change to
> the terminal handling fixes this and I have a patch for the change.
>
> My trivial patch changes ConsoleIOContext to look at the TERM
> environment variable and, if set to "dumb", to use the TestTerminal
> instead of one of the platform specific terminals that won't work in an
> Emacs buffer or comparable dumb terminal. I was tempted to make the
> patch a little better by renaming the TestTerminal to DumbTerminal
> since it would then be used for both the test case and the case where a
> dumb terminal is requested explicitly via the TERM environment
> variable.
>
> I understand that it is probably too late to get it into jdk9 but I'm
> wondering if there is someone I could work with to get this change into
> jdk10 in either form proposed above and the perhaps into jdk9
> eventually. I know the group of Emacs lovers in the world is dwindling
> but I'm sure more than just myself would appreciate this being fixed.
>
> For other projects I might find a bug or enhancement
> possibility. Fix and test it. File a bug mentioning that I also have a
> suggested fix. Then create a pull request referencing the bug.
>
> In this case, I've signed the OCA but I don't see a way to create a
> bug? There doesn't seem to be a way to create an account on the bug
> database? Where would be the best place to start?
>
> Thanks,
>    logan
>