Just to clarify a bit, we were more thinking of extending the default repl
to have line editing features, rather then making xrepl the default, or
having xrepl use libedit rather that libreadline.
It would not be too terrible if we required a user to have it installed to
use it. (It's included in
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> Do you have in mind making "xrepl" intended to be part of Minimal
>> Racket? If not, what's the mechanism for `racket` using "xrepl" when
>> it's available?
>
> I can think of
On Nov 25, 2014 11:01 AM, "Matthew Flatt" wrote:
> We can't link to "libreadline" by default in a Racket
> distribution, and since "libeditline" isn't typically included with
> Linux distributions (as far as I can tell), it seems like we haven't
> solved any problem unless we provide "libeditline"
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Do you have in mind making "xrepl" intended to be part of Minimal
> Racket? If not, what's the mechanism for `racket` using "xrepl" when
> it's available?
I can think of a few ways of doing this.
1 Just make xrepl part of minimal Racket (
Do you have in mind making "xrepl" intended to be part of Minimal
Racket? If not, what's the mechanism for `racket` using "xrepl" when
it's available?
A similar question applies to "libeditline". Currently, for Linux and
other Unix platforms (not counting "natipkg" variants), our convention
is tha
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