From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: request for hack: readline fixes
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:44:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d3wapmga.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
Hello list,
It would be really great if someone could get to the bottom of our
readline support and fix a couple things.
* Tab-completion: Works great for functions, not so much for arguments?
If at the repl you type `(string-' and press tab, you get a list of
symbols bound in the current module that start with string-. Of
course it would be nice to restrict these to procedures, but hey. But
if you type `(string-ref fo' and press TAB, you get nothing, not even
if `foo' is bound. Bummer, no? It's been this way for at least 10
years but I know that readline can do the right thing. Please fix?
* History: Expression-oriented, please!
It would be great if going back in the history cycled through entire
expressions, not line-by-line. Again I know that readline can do
this. Please fix? :)
Thanks! It's an isolated hack, but many of us will thank you for fixing
it!
Andy
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next reply other threads:[~2010-06-01 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-01 19:44 Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-06-02 13:48 ` request for hack: readline fixes 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
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