From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: request for hack: readline fixes
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:32:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34obk5ee4.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp6bnxeg.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:11:51 +0100")
Hi Neil,
On Sun 31 Oct 2010 00:11, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>
>> Subject: [PATCH] Expression-oriented readline history
Awesome! Applied, with gusto :)
> 2. An interesting different approach would be not to do the add-history
> here (i.e. in make-readline-port) at all, but instead in
> readline-repl-reader, by writing the expression that was read into a
> string, and adding that string with add-history. That would give a less
> verbatim kind of history, e.g. (I guess) "'a" would appear in the
> history as "(quote a)". But it would cope better with multiple
> expressions being entered at the same readline prompt.
Hummmm. I would like this, but we would have to use the pretty-printer
for the current language, so that it would work for ecmascript too.
Andy
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-14 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-01 19:44 request for hack: readline fixes Andy Wingo
2010-06-02 13:48 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2010-10-30 15:30 ` Neil Jerram
2010-10-30 22:11 ` Neil Jerram
2010-11-14 11:32 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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