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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why am I unable to use 'readline_on_new_line()' on
 mywindows machine?
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

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 iss=
ue
>> 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 unkn=
own
>> 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/bca9a9e2d971ade48c06e5b2540a0b1e536f=
ca2b>