On Apr 1, 2005, at 9:40, John Hunter wrote:
In ipython, which uses readline for tab completion in the shell, on my powerbook when I do
cd pyth<TAB>
The completer generates
cd python _
where the _ is a placeholder for where the cursor ends up. When completing on a long path, this is annoying, because I have to backspace out all those extras spaces.
I brought this up on the ipython list and Fernando Perez and I spent some time trying to hunt it down. In the end, he was firmly convinced that this was a platform specific readline problem. I get this behavior in both the X11 xterm and the OS X Terminal.
I'm have readline-2.3-binary and readline-2.3.source listed in my Python Install Manager.
Someone on the ipython list suggested
From: Eric Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IPython-user] OSX tab completion To: Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:20:44 -0800
Fink's python and underlying readline do the right thing.
There is also something (I can't remember what) to turn on os x's
shipping readline to do the right thing. Search google. There is one
rather difficult solution - rebuilding readline - and another which is
just to change some configuration if I remember correctly.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? Any ideas on how to fix this little annoyance?
Mac OS X does not ship with readline. If you downloaded readline from PackageManager, it's old and might have bugs. The one at http://pythonmac.org/packages/ should link in the latest version of readline as per darwinports when I built it (which is still most recent): 5.0.005.
-bob
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