Clink puts a number of DLL hooks in place to do it's thing (Console too), so I'm not surprised if there is poor interaction with Julia and libuv. I don't know if we can do anything about that, but maybe we can push through the switch to using mintty soon and backport it to 0.3.*
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Blake Riley <[email protected]> wrote: > I had been using 0.2.1, which worked fine with the old readline library, > and hadn't tried any 0.3-pre versions. > > I was running Julia via the Windows command prompt, either on its own (say > by launching julia.exe) or inside Marko Bozikovic's Console > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/>. In cmd.exe, I had Clink > <http://mridgers.github.io/clink/> running, but disabling that didn't > change anything. I also tried in Cygwin inside Console, and that didn't > work either. > > Since you mentioned mintty, I tried the default Cygwin terminal, and > everything works fine there. I'm guessing that's because it has no reliance > on cmd.exe, even indirectly like through cygwin.bat in Console. > > > On Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:57:01 PM UTC-5, Isaiah wrote: > >> How are you running Julia? Do the bindings work for you in some 0.3-pre >> binary? (if so, how old / what hash). >> >> Everything seems to work properly when I run Julia from the shortcut in >> the install directory, or from the command prompt. Several people, >> including myself, also use Julia inside of mintty on a regular basis. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Blake Riley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> After upgrading to the 64-bit Windows version of the 0.3.0 final >>> release, the key bindings no longer work for me. Instead, I get ^A, ^D, >>> ^E, etc like you'd expect from the standard command prompt. No luck >>> with tab completion either. The ? and ; commands to enter help or shell >>> modes also return errors. The REPL seems fine otherwise. Is there some >>> trick for all the features of the new REPL to work on Windows 7? >>> >> >>
