Of course, you will always be able to install the readline egg. This is about providing minimal readline functionality to new users who don't know yet about chicken-install, and who run csi expecting to have command history and perhaps completion available to them. I don't think we have to reinvent all of the readline functionality.
-Ivan Evan Hanson <[email protected]> writes: >> Chicken already has all the bindings to the core C I/O >> functions, so it might not be too much work to implement some minimal >> command-line history. >> >> -Ivan > > Keep in mind, though, that readline provides a lot more than just history > (like completion, or my beloved vi mode...). Seems like a lot of functionality > to reinvent IMO... Though perhaps editline or linenoise provide these? > > Evan _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
