If we are on the latest master, I guess we can safely `rm -Rf
deps/readline-6.2` ?


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Shaun Walbridge <[email protected]
> wrote:

> 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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