bug#12207: repl and comments or tabs

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

A very kind ping :)

You didn't sign up to do this but maybe you would like to do it?  I'll
never know if I don't ask :)

Hope you are well, & happy hacking :)

Andy

On Wed 15 Aug 2012 22:11, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> Hi Neil,
>
> Mailing you since you were the last to touch the REPL, and perhaps you
> have a desire for a small hack :)
>
> There are two bugs that bother me off and on.  One is that pasting
> Scheme code into the Guile REPL can cause autocompletion if the Scheme
> code has tabs for whitespace.  I wonder, is there a way to fix that?
>
> Another is that going up into the history where the history has
> multi-line Scheme expressions with comments doesn't work, because a
> comment from line N will cause lines N+1,N+2... to be commented out --
> because they all end up on the same line.  Is there a way for the
> history to preserve the multi-line nature of the input while only having
> one prompt?  Dunno, just a thought.
>
> Hope all is well.  Let me know if you are interested in these bugs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy