On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:57:34AM +0200, Axel Svensson wrote: > > my idea is to add an Emacs-like command line to PicoLisp. I thought this > > Is there anything you want that's not supported by the GNU readline > library? Since this library is so popular, it's been well tested > during the years. Maybe it be possible to create picolisp bindings for > it?
In fact, there is already a simple version in the PicoLisp distribution, in "lib/readline.l". It is for pil32. In pil64, 'readline' can be directly called via 'native': (de *Led (native "/lib64/libreadline.so.5" "readline" 'S NIL)) but this has a memory leak iirc. I haven't investigated closely. The problem with both solutions is that they don't integrate as well as "lib/led.l" with the PicoLisp runtime environment (e.g. tab completion on the currently existing internal symbols, locking of the history file), but this can probably be improved upon. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
