Another alternative is to use 'rlwrap'. Works great! Something like:
$ rlwrap ./shell
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> A followup...
>
> I skipped using Brew, and just used the scons console=readline d8 in
> a /tmp directory and it build d8 nicely, and had history!! Super...
>
> So now, I just need to figure out how to get brew to do this...
> without bombing... or I just copy the d8 from /tmp and put it in a
> nice place.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On May 5, 4:49 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried compiling with the d8 option, but that just bombed out with an
> > error about not finding a shell... :(
> >
> > Thought it might be that simple... tack on a d8 and go.. no luck...
> >
> > Thanks for the tips though... shows there is some hope..
> >
> > On May 5, 4:39 pm, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I compiled v8 with the latest brew recipe on OSX. When I entered the
> > > > shell, and typed a command, var f = "test"; I had my f variable fine.
> > > > But I quickly realized this shell has no command history?
> >
> > > > Is there a way to compile v8 to offer a shell with a history?
> >
> > > If you've got any experience with libreadline (or edltline, or
> something
> > > similar), it would be easy to hack it in.
> >
> > > Somewhere around here i've got a readline/editline plugin for v8...
> >
> > >http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/wiki/PluginReadline
> >
> > > It wouldn't be difficult to strip that code for re-use in a
> non-v8-juice
> > > envrionment. The relevant code is here:
> >
> > >http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/source/browse/extra-plugins/src/rea.
> ..
> > > <
> http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/source/browse/extra-plugins/src/rea...>
> > > --
> > > ----- stephan bealhttp://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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