Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

2019-03-28 Thread Alex Shinn
There's also (chibi term edit-line) which is a pure R7RS implementation and should work with Chicken. I haven't put it up on snow-fort yet though. -- Alex On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:17 PM Juergen Lorenz wrote: > Hi all, > there is a very easy to use and simple alternative to readline and > con

Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

2019-03-23 Thread Juergen Lorenz
Hi all, there is a very easy to use and simple alternative to readline and consorts: rlwrap It's an external package and thas has the advantage to be usable not only with chicken, but with every program without readline support. Cheers Juergen -- Dr. Juergen Lorenz Gruener Weg 27 29471 Gartow

Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

2019-03-23 Thread Vasilij Schneidermann
Hello Kristian, > I don't know about the status on the C4 readline egg, whether a C5 port is > planned or whether it's considered obsolete. I've contributed to the readline egg before and eventually reached the conclusion that I'm better off developing my own with a different, incompatible API.

Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

2019-03-23 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
Hi Marco, It seems the readline egg isn't available for CHICKEN 5. You could try [breadline] or [linenoise]? [breadline]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/breadline [linenoise]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/linenoise I don't know about the status on the C4 readline egg, whether a C5 por

[Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

2019-03-23 Thread Marco Maggi
I'm a newbie on a x84_64-pc-linux-gnu. $ chicken-install readline -sudo Server error: Error: [Server] no such extension or version "readline" #f Server error: Error: [Server] no such extension or version "readline" #f Error: extension or version not found: "readline" TIA -- Marco Maggi _