Julia auto-detects the type of terminal it is running it to attempt to give the correct behavior in each. Mintty, Cygwin, and Msys would all show up the same in this case as pseudo-pty interfaces. I'm not sure why cmd would be having difficulty, since it is the easiest to detect and configure.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >>>> >>> >>> >
