#2606: Backspace, delete, etc. don't work in ghci in HEAD
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Reporter: tim | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: GHCi | Version: 6.9
Severity: major | Resolution:
Keywords: | Testcase:
Architecture: x86 | Os: Linux
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Comment (by dorinho):
Replying to [comment:6 judah]:
> Hmm, if you had to install libedit-dev to build that program then maybe
ghc's editline bindings weren't built when you built ghc. Can you please
check whether ghc's editline package is installed, for example by:
> - trying to run {{{:browse System.Console.Editline.Readline}}} inside
ghci
> - double-checking whether the up/down arrow keys page through the ghci
history
>
> If it's not installed, you can probably fix this problem by building ghc
again.
It's also missing in my case, additionally it seems that '''readline''' is
the only one of the darcs packages missing at the source distributions
(6.10,6.11) - might this problem be nonexistent if building from darcs?
What's the reason to omit readline?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2606#comment:8>
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