#3235: ghci-6.10.3 can't be built with readline support
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: GHCi | Version: 6.10.3
Severity: minor | Resolution:
Keywords: | Testcase:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
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Comment (by judah):
Note that Haskeline does have bindable commands, as documented at:
http://trac.haskell.org/haskeline/wiki/WikiDocumentation
Also keep in mind that the readline backend also came with problems. For
example, the following didn't work:
- tab-completion of Unicode identifiers (#2058)
- tab completion of quoted filenames in expressions
- cancel the current input line with ctrl-c
I don't really object to a forked GHC/readline. But I wonder whether the
effort required to maintain a separate branch of GHC would be better used
to fix Haskeline's remaining issues. (I plan to tackle many of them
myself in time for the ghc-6.12 release.)
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