On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:44 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > >> Ian Lynagh wrote a pure haskell readline implementation a while ago, > > > > I think that was Malcolm Wallace. > > ... and it is part of the readline package! See > System.Console.SimpleLineEditor. Needless to say, it is far from > perfect, but does give some basic facilities. There are lots of ways > it could be extended. > > (I haven't checked, but I really hope the cabal mechanisms for > configuring the readline package do not require a working actual- > readline installation, because SimpleLineEditor is explicitly designed > to workaround its absence! It is supposed to provide a uniform > interface regardless of whether readline is there.)
It's certainly possible though from a quick look at the .cabal description and configure.ac script it's not quite clear if it'll do what you want. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
