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-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl4
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl16
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl b/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl
index e6ce85c379..380c685869 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/user_drv.erl
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ server1(Iport, Oport, Shell) ->
flatten(io_lib:format("~ts\n",
[erlang:system_info(system_version)]))},
Iport, Oport),
+
%% Enter the server loop.
server_loop(Iport, Oport, Curr, User, Gr, queue:new()).
@@ -315,6 +316,9 @@ handle_escape(Iport, Oport, User, Gr, IOQueue) ->
_ -> % {ok,jcl} | undefined
io_request({put_chars,unicode,"\nUser switch command\n"}, Iport, Oport),
+ %% init edlin used by switch command and have it copy the
+ %% text buffer from current group process
+ edlin:init(gr_cur_pid(Gr)),
server_loop(Iport, Oport, User, switch_loop(Iport, Oport, Gr), IOQueue)
end.
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl
index b3bc5f6d92..362669545e 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
%% A simple Emacs-like line editor.
%% About Latin-1 characters: see the beginning of erl_scan.erl.
--export([init/0,start/1,start/2,edit_line/2,prefix_arg/1]).
+-export([init/0,init/1,start/1,start/2,edit_line/2,prefix_arg/1]).
-export([erase_line/1,erase_inp/1,redraw_line/1]).
-export([length_before/1,length_after/1,prompt/1]).
-export([current_line/1, current_chars/1]).
@@ -44,6 +44,20 @@
init() ->
put(kill_buffer, []).
+init(Pid) ->
+ %% copy the kill_buffer from the process Pid
+ CopiedKillBuf =
+ case erlang:process_info(Pid, dictionary) of
+ {dictionary,Dict} ->
+ case proplists:get_value(kill_buffer, Dict) of
+ undefined -> [];
+ Buf -> Buf
+ end;
+ undefined ->
+ []
+ end,
+ put(kill_buffer, CopiedKillBuf).
+
%% start(Prompt)
%% edit(Characters, Continuation)
%% Return