From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: 15221@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15221: reiterating the request
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:32:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t4dqc9j.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0tpxj4i.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:22:37 -0600")
Hi Tom,
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:
> Hi. I tried guile today and was surprised to find that it doesn't use
> readline by default. I think this would be a big improvement to the
> REPL.
>
> Second best would be a command line option, or editing some config file.
You can enable it by adding the following two lines to your ~/.guile:
(use-modules (ice-9 readline))
(activate-readline)
See <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Readline.html>.
I'm sympathetic to the desire to enable it by default, but I'm not sure
how to navigate the license issue, namely that GNU Readline is
GPL-licensed, whereas Guile is LGPL-licensed.
Regards,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 13:04 bug#15221: provide a mechanism to activate readline systemwide Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
2013-08-30 14:01 ` dsmich
2013-08-30 15:49 ` Noah Lavine
2013-09-03 8:52 ` Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
2018-09-07 18:22 ` bug#15221: reiterating the request Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 20:32 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-09-07 23:10 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 3:35 ` David Pirotte
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