root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | The MAC server on which this was compiled did not have an X-windows | > | > | environment so it was not possible to compile and test Axiom Graphics | > | > | and the Hyperdoc browser. Also native MAC OSX10 apparently does not | > | > | have support for the pts virtual terminal interface so it is not | > | > | possible yet to compile clef (the replacement for readline). | > | > | > | > I never quite understood why readline needs to be replaced. Do you know? | > | | > | clef knows more than readline. given an input file it can do smart | > | command line completion of things like domain names. | > | > In what sense that "more knowledge" is unattainable with readline. | > I dislike all those duplicated things in Axiom. They are nothing but | > source of confusion. | | At the time clef, hyperdoc, graphics, etc were written we were using | X10 (not the house wireless, the pre-X11 windows) on 6MHz PCs. These | ideas were invented within the group to solve problems, not because | we wanted our own copies.
I suspected they were invented to solve problems. Thankfully, we are in 2006 now. readline has been around for more than a decade. I'm trying to understand what would a barrier to stop the homegrown clef (which from my experience is source of frustration) and use a standard readline. [...] | If readline can do completions perhaps we should feed it the | symbols in compress.daase. We should put that on the TODO list. -- gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
