The problem is the ambiguity between whether you typed the newline or whether it's a record separator. There is hacks to make it work, but I would prefer to have a non-text character to keep it simple. If you don't care when grepping, couldn't you just do
~/.julia_history2 > tr '\0' '\n' | grep ... ? On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Shaun Walbridge <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >>>>> >>>>> >> >
