Where does it keeps the commands history? The old  .julia_history is not 
used (and lost) anymore but the commands "memory" is preserved, though 
reset to blank.

Domingo, 30 de Março de 2014 0:57:13 UTC, Jake Bolewski escreveu:
>
> This is really great work Keno and Mike.
>
> I think a great improvemnt would be to make completions were a bit more 
> modular.  That way custom completion callbacks could be added in at runtime 
> in your .juliarc file.  I'm trying to get zsh to do the shell completions 
> but that would only interest people who use zsh :-)
>
> Do we have an ETA on when 0.3 will be released?  This seemed like one of 
> the bigger blockers.
>
> Best,
> Jake
>
> On Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:59:19 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>
>> Good news, everyone! The pure-Julia read eval print loop (REPL) that Keno 
>> Fischer developed and Mike Nolta integrated into base Julia has just been 
>> merged. There are a number of nice things about changing from the old REPL 
>> to this new one, in no particular order:
>>
>>    - The old REPL used the GNU readline library, which we had hacked far 
>>    beyond what it was ever meant to do. This made modifying it a bit 
>>    terrifying and thus issues with it tended to get ignored or shelved as 
>>    "we'll be able to do that in the new REPL". 
>>    - The new REPL, is pretty clean, simple Julia code. Seriously – terminal 
>>    
>> support<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/Terminals.jl>, 
>>    line 
>> editing<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/LineEdit.jl>, 
>>    and the REPL 
>> itself<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/REPL.jl>are less 
>> than 2000 lines of code – 
>>    *total*. This works out to a net code reduction of 33233 lines of 
>>    code (GNU readline is 34640 lines of C), while *gaining*functionality. 
>> That has to be a project record. 
>>    - The new code is infinitely easier to modify, fix and improve, so 
>>    REPL-replated bugs will probably get fixed lickety split going forward.
>>    - The old GNU readline REPL was one of our GPL library dependencies 
>>    that make the total Julia "product" GPL. We'd like to shed these or make 
>>    them optional to allow for a non-GPL, MIT-licensed Julia distribution and 
>>    this is a major step toward that goal. 
>>    - The new REPL code already has fancy features that you wouldn't even 
>>    think about doing with readline. Try typing "?" or ";" at the prompt and 
>>    see the REPL mode change form "julia>" to "help>" or "shell>". Cool, huh? 
>>    - The new REPL is noticeably snappier than the old one. Combined with 
>>    the static compilation of julia introduced in 0.3, going from zero to 
>> REPL 
>>    is pretty quick these days.
>>    - Since full-fledged line editing functionality is now built into 
>>    Base Julia, we can use it everywhere without worrying what libraries 
>> people 
>>    have installed. Once we settle on a good API, you can expect that user 
>> code 
>>    that needs to prompt for input will be just as slick as the REPL itself. 
>>
>> There will, of course, be some hitches and road bumps, but now that this 
>> is merged and everyone using Julia master will be testing it, they should 
>> get sorted out in short order. Much applause for Keno and Mike for this 
>> excellent work.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>

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