On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Bradey Honsinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Were you asking about "readline" functionality? > > http://docs.python.org/library/readline.html > > http://www.google.com/search?q=+python+readline > > > > I'm not at my Mac right now to check it out myself, but this looks > like it might be related to this issue: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue6877 > > This was fixed in the trunk for 2.7 and backported to 2.6.5, so the > behaviour you're seeing could be a regression, but take a look at your > ./configure command line--there are a couple of command lines in this > comment: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue6877#msg98858 > > None of them look directly related to readline, but > MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 could have some effect. > > - Bradey > coming from the linux side of things, I wasn't aware of the other libedit family of BSD alternatives that are on the mac. eg. http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ Are there any background "stories" on why the divergence ( gnu-readline vs libedit ) ?
