Re: Why am I unable to use 'readline_on_new_line()' on mywindows machine?

On 30.04.2021 at 10:53, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:51 PM Hamza Ahmad <office.hamzaahmad@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am unable to call readline_on_new_line() function. >> I am posting this to internals to confirm whether it is a bug or an issue >> with docs. >> The manual suggests that this function is available on php 8. >> https://php.net/manual/en/function.readline-on-new-line.php >> However, when I invoke this in my script, it informs of calling an unknown >> function. Other readline functions, such as readline(), >> readline_read_history(), readline_write_history(), do work. >> I wrote to shell >> var_dump(function_exists('readline_on_new_line'));. It >> responded with bool(false). I wrote, >> var_dump(extension_loaded('readline')). It said, >> bool(true). >> Note: my PHP version (PHP_VERSION) is 8.0.5. >> Any type of help will be appreciated. > > This function is only available if the HAVE_RL_ON_NEW_LINE feature is > available. I'm not sure whether the readline version on Windows doesn't > support this, or whether the flag just isn't set. Maybe Christoph can > comment on that? Windows uses wineditline[1], and that library doesn't implement rl_on_new_line(), so the PHP function is not supposed to be available there. I've just updated the docs[2]. [1] <https://github.com/winlibs/wineditline> [2] <https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/bca9a9e2d971ade48c06e5b2540a0b1e536fca2b>