read is still line-buffered when a delimiter is specified

[Crestwave]

I'm honestly having trouble reproducing this in a non-interactive script (if you can, do let me know how!), but you can simply run read -d a and press a. In Bash, read will immediately exit, but on OSH, it still waits for a newline. This is required to run pxltrm

[andychu]

Ah good point, right now we do something special for read -n 3 but not read -d a. It should be easy to make it apply to read whenever it's a terminal

[andychu]

@Crestwave This is on master now if you want to try it out. Sorry I forgot about it for the 0.8.pre8 release last night

[Crestwave]

Great; I've gotten pxltrm to run now! Here's my rough patch. Essentially, it's #262, eval_unsafe_arith,read -p, and ${arr}.

[andychu]

OK nice! read -p sounds easy enough to add to minimize the patch

The other changes look good

[andychu]

I did a basic version of read -p ... If it doesn't allow you to remove the patches let me know :)

[Crestwave]

Okay, it seems to work, although the patch isn't much smaller because I found some more uses of $_ that account for some edge cases. I've opened a pull request: dylanaraps/pxltrm#18

[andychu]

Released: https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.pre9/