On the emacs front. You don't have to even set up slime, if all you want is
csi w/command history.
Just start Emacs, Alt-X shell , type csi and your good to go. Ctrl-Up Arrow
to access history.

Setting up Slime is worth the effort, but not necessary.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Claude Marinier <claudem...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Using csi with parley works well on Linux (Debian Wheezy).
>
> On MS Windows, Cygwin and MinGW are stepping on each other's toes. I have
> to clean-up the mess.
>
> Time to re-visit the choice between Cygwin and MinGW. The concern some
> people have about the Cygwin DLL and the GPL does not affect me for now. If
> I publish, I will likely use a three clause BSD license which is
> compatible, right? The obvious technical reason to choose one over the
> other is POSIX support. Are there others?
>
>
> Hum ... maybe I should stick with Linux. :-)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Claude Marinier <claudem...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Christian Kellermann wrote:
>>
>>> * Christian Kellermann <ck...@pestilenz.org> [130725 10:48]:
>>>
>>>> * Christian Kellermann <ck...@pestilenz.org> [130725 10:29]:
>>>>
>>>>> * Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> [130725 08:59]:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 06:57:56PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. The context is
>>>>>>> using the REPL on MS Windows. I prefer to use MinGW instead of
>>>>>>> Cygwin.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you saying that csi can be built to use parley to provide better
>>>>>>> history and line editing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's not neccessary; you can simply build parley and load it into
>>>>>> your csirc startup file and it will take care of the rest.  See the
>>>>>> parley manual page for more info on how to do that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Can this also be done on MS Windows?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't see why it shouldn't work, but it probably hasn't been tested
>>>>>> yet.
>>>>>> Just give it a go and see how far you get.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I see that stty needs some patching, I will see what I can do. Alex,
>>>> have you got a stty version that's known to work on windows?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, as a quick fix you need to chicken-install -r stty and comment
>>> out three occasions of ECHOPRT. At least parley should work then
>>> as this flag isn't used.
>>>
>>> Please tell me how far you get.
>>>
>>
>> I retrieved the stty code, commented out the lines which reference
>> ECHOPRT, and tried to build & install stty. I am not sure how to proceed
>> from there. I expect chicken-install has a switch to build and install from
>> the current directory.
>>
>> Trying 'chicken-install stty' produced much activity as dependencied were
>> handles, then it died with the following error.
>>
>>     stty.c:13:21: fatal error: termios.h: No such file or directory
>>     compilation terminated.
>>
>> --
>> Claude Marinier
>>
>>
>>
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