The status is as follows: (1) The readline REPL will be replaced by REPL.jl (https://github.com/loladiro/REPL.jl/issues/8). (2) This hasn't happened yet. It's probably targeted for the immidate post-0.3 landing period at this point. (3) No one has stepped up to figure out why there are problems with .inputrc. I don't think a pull request to fix it will be rejected, but due to (1) no one is really interested in dedicating time to this. (4) You can see if `rlwrap julia-basic` works for you.
On Monday, March 17, 2014 1:00:54 AM UTC-5, Nathaniel Virgo wrote: > > Hi all > > Currently, the julia command line ignores .inputrc. There are a couple of > issues on github that seem related to this ( > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2197 and > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5883), but both are closed. > It’s not clear whether this is the intended behaviour (if so, why?) or if > it will be fixed by some other issue. If possible, could someone clarify > the status of this? > > I have the following in my ~/.inputrc. In other command-line > applications, this allows me to enter the first few letters of a previous > command and then press up-arrow to recall it. This is both very useful and > deeply engrained into my muscle memory, so it would be very helpful if > julia could behave in the same way. > > > "\e[A": history-search-backward > "\e[B": history-search-forward > set completion-ignore-case on > > If it makes a difference, I am running julia in a Terminal window on OS X. > > Best regards, > Nathaniel >
