New Emacs-style command-line editor

2012-11-29 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Hi List, I just posted a reference article on the wiki (http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?emacsstyleled) that explains how to activate and use the new Emacs-style command-line editor developed by me (with some help from Alex). You can try it out with the new testing version 3.1.0.15 available on

Re: New Emacs-style command-line editor

2012-11-29 Thread Joe Bogner
Thanks Thorsten! I will give it a shot. This gives me a reason to try emacs again for picolisp. I installed everything the other day and then switched back to vi and vi mode in the repl after getting frustrated with not knowing how to cycle through my command history in inferior-picolisp. I am so

Re: New Emacs-style command-line editor

2012-11-29 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Joe Bogner joebog...@gmail.com writes: Hi Joe, I will give it a shot. This gives me a reason to try emacs again for picolisp. I installed everything the other day and then switched back to vi and vi mode in the repl after getting frustrated with not knowing how to cycle through my command

Re: New Emacs-style command-line editor

2012-11-29 Thread Joe Bogner
Thorsten - Thanks for the reply. I tried it and it works great - just as expected. It works very well on my phone too which had some trouble with the terminal program switching in and out of vi mode due to the poor handling of Esc. I will definitely be using this On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:15

Re: New Emacs-style command-line editor

2012-11-29 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Joe, expected. It works very well on my phone too which had some trouble with the terminal program switching in and out of vi mode due to the poor handling of Esc. Are the arrow keys usable on the phone? Both the vi- and the emacs-style command line in PicoLisp now also support arrow keys