Yeah, fair enough -- that'd work fine for my needs.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Keno Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> >> >
