On Friday, April 14, 2006, at 12:00PM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Terminal and xterm don't have readline capability, the shell (bash)
>> does. But that is of no use when you're in the python interactive
>> shell. Then having readline support in python is very handy.
>
>Right you
> Terminal and xterm don't have readline capability, the shell (bash)
> does. But that is of no use when you're in the python interactive
> shell. Then having readline support in python is very handy.
Right you are, Ronald. Thanks for the correction. I never use them
bare; I always run Emacs in
On Thursday, April 13, 2006, at 11:53PM, Zachary Pincus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>> So... I have found that IPython exposes a bug in GNU readline 5.1,
>>> sadly enough. This bug causes segfaults when the up-arrow key is
>>> used under certain situations. Ugh. Fortunately, the extant
>>
On Friday, April 14, 2006, at 03:42AM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just curious...
>
>Is there really a need for the readline library? On Mac, I always run
>Python shells in either (1) Terminal, or (2) xterm, or (3) an Emacs
>shell buffer. All of them have readline capability buil
