jconsole by default use libedit which has an accompanying per user config
file .editrc  but not sure if that file will be read when using jconsole.

On Sun, Jun 2, 2019, 11:27 AM Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the info Bill,
> Have tried the various different options and for those interested will
> summarise functionality I'm seeing below.
>
> jconsole -norl
>   * Ctrl+z works, Ctrl+d works (use twice if line not empty)
>   * no history
>   * no Ctrl+w, Ctrl+arrows
>   * no path completion
> jconsole
>   * Ctrl+z works, Ctrl+d works if empty line
>   * history works
>   * Ctrl+w deletes until start of line
>   * Ctrl+arrows don't work
>   * path completion, but with trailing space
> rlwrap jconsole -norl
>   * Ctrl+z works, Ctrl+d works if empty line
>   * history works
>   * Ctrl+w deletes last word
>   * Ctrl+arrows move cursor one word left/right
>   * path completion if use -c option (rlwrap -c jconsole -norl)
>
> BTW I notice in the man page for rlwrap there is the following entry: *e,
> --extra-char-after-completion char* By default, rlwrap appends a space
> after any inserted completion text. Use this option to change this to ''
> (don't insert anything) or some other character.The default functionality
> appears to be what we see in the current jconsole. Does this info have any
> potential for addressing that behaviour?
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 1:59 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > linux/mac jconsole now loads libedit dynamically with fallback to
> > linenoise (minimalist readline). In rhel/centos, it is no longer
> > necessary to symlink libedit.so to run jconsole.
> >
> > In case it doesn't work or you don't want readline/linenoise, there
> > is a new option -norl to disable the built-in readline.
> >
> > $ jconsole -norl
> > or
> > $ rlwrap jconsole -norl  # to use rlwrap
> >
> > In this Mac jconsole beta, ^r (reverse search) doesn't work,
> > can anyone confirm it was the same in j807 jconsole.
> >
> >
> > Wed, 29 May 2019, Eric Iverson написал(а):
> > > J901 beta g is available as a zip install package for
> > windows/mac/linux/rpi.
> > >
> > > There are JE performance changes.
> > >
> > > There are changes to jconsole (better support for readline on all
> > > platforms). There are  stack changes that help J report an error rather
> > > than crash in some cases of recursion.
> > >
> > > You could use je_update_pacman_ to update just JE, but it is probably
> > best
> > > to do a full zip install.
> > >
> > > Get your zip install package at:
> > >  https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/Zips
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