On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Torsten Otto <t-otto-n...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi! > > My students have the task to program an interactive chatbot. We have run > into a problem that I can't solve either: > > When we read the user's input through >> t <- getLine > it is not possible to delete typos before hitting enter and thereby sending > the input off to the system (at least in OS X, bash).
Why reinvent the shell? Is the program not setup in such a way as to make the ShellAC package a useful solution? I see someone already chimed in with readline. You might want to look at haskeline too, if you go that path (both are a step lower than ShellAC wrt abstraction). Thomas _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe