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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
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