~/.julia_history2 unless Mike changed it. The format is different.

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:06 PM, J Luis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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