Wonderful work Keno and Mike! This is a great addition. Would it be possible to retain the standard Readline history file format of separating elements by newlines? It looks like history elements in my new .julia_history2 file are NULL terminated, which makes the file harder to use with line-oriented shell tools like ag/ack/grep.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Keno Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > ~/.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 >>>> >>>> >
