Bug#576814: libjline-java: left-arrow, up-arrow adds null to retrieved history line

Package: libjline-java Version: 0.9.94-5 Severity: normal In xterm, gnome-terminal, lxterminal, and presumably other X terminals as well, and even linux console, some sequences of left-arrow and up-arrow key-presses corrupt lines from the history by adding nulls and dropping characters earlier in

Bug#576814: Workaround with rlwrap (Re: left-arrow, up-arrow adds null to retrieved history line)

Package: libjline-java Version: 0.9.94-5 Severity: normal On #clojure @ irc.freenode.net, a helpful respondent reviewing this bug suggested I use rlwrap as a workaround. This works for me, and adds some more features a like that actually make it preferable to jline, such as

Bug#572432: REPL does not use JLine ConsoleRunner or another readline-style library

Package: clojure Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Consider recommending (or suggesting) rlwrap instead, as jline has a rather annoying line-corruption bug I discovered (see #576814) that limits its usefulness, and rlwrap is more featureful. Example invocation: rlwrap java -cp

Bug#572343: clojure-repl: clojure.lang.Repl is deprecated

Package: clojure Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch When I start clojure-repl, it displays a deprecation warning: sy...@lear:~$ clojure-repl WARNING: clojure.lang.Repl is deprecated. Instead, use clojure.main like this: java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main -i init.clj -r args...