From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#15221: reiterating the request Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:32:40 -0400 Message-ID: <878t4dqc9j.fsf@netris.org> References: <52209859.6080307@kit.edu> <87d0tpxj4i.fsf@tromey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536352385 5101 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2018 20:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 20:33:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: 15221@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 22:33:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNR7-0001Df-1B for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:33:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNTD-0003r6-H8 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNT9-0003qt-1n for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNT4-000854-OK for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNT4-000829-Hs for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNT4-0000Bx-7p for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:35:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Mark H Weaver Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guile@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 20:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15221 X-GNU-PR-Package: guile X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15221-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15221.1536352467670 (code B ref 15221); Fri, 07 Sep 2018 20:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15221) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2018 20:34:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49852 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNSU-0000Ak-SV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:34:27 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:59146) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNSS-0000AX-My for 15221@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mhw by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fyNSM-0006Ym-SF; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:34:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d0tpxj4i.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:22:37 -0600") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-guile" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:9152 Archived-At: Hi Tom, Tom Tromey 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 . 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