Sorry, that may be wrong... I seem to have fallen into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike as I try to research this.
However, I will publish a minimum viable patch to make the REPL happy on MacOS. Sent from my iPhone Daniel Lathrop (@lathropd) Mobile: (206) 718-0349 PGP key: https://keybase.io/lathropd (raw) > On Aug 21, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Daniel ”Fooist” Lathrop <d...@foo.ist> wrote: > > Neither Linenoise or Readline has solid multi-byte character support, as I > understand it. Getting unicode support would require switching to libedit (or > something else) I think. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Daniel Lathrop (@lathropd) > Mobile: (206) 718-0349 > PGP key: https://keybase.io/lathropd (raw) > >>> On Aug 20, 2020, at 11:28 PM, William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote: >>> >> Hi Daniel, and welcome! >> >> I'm building Rakudo from source on Apple (MacOS), which gives me a >> later version than I might get with Rakudo-Star. Patrick Spek is the >> person to ask about Rakudo-Star, and I've copied him on this email. I >> can't speak to who decides what happens with Jeff Goff's significant >> Perl6/Raku coding efforts. I'm assuming someone will contact you--here >> or on Github. >> >> Anyway I've been using Rob Hoelz's excellent Linenoise module instead >> of Readline to work the Rakudo REPL. I'm actually very happy with >> Linenoise, but it would be nice to have a choice (Readline didn't work >> out for me). I'm sure others can chime in here: which is better? Which >> is more powerful? Maybe the patch you've come up with could be >> (metaphorically) applied to the successful Raku-Linenoise module as >> well. >> >> Areas of improvement I'd like to see in terms of the REPL are the following: >> >> 1. Maybe a way to copy/paste multiple lines in at the REPL command >> prompt? Or send to the REPL via tmux (maybe in conjunction with Brian >> Duggan's Tmeta module)? >> 2. Unicode...Is there a way to improve 'character width' and/or cursor >> position (the cursor is often far to the right of displayed Unicode >> characters)? >> 3. Also Unicode...occasionally I only "partially" delete a Unicode >> character while in the REPL, which results in a "Malformed termination >> of UTF-8 string" error. Please save me from my screw-ups, >> >> Best, Bill. >> >> W. Michels, Ph.D. >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 8:22 PM <d...@foo.ist> wrote: >>> >>> Hi fellow Rakuists, >>> >>> I’m a total Raku n00b, and I’m looking for guidance. The late Jeff >>> Goff‘S Readline package doesn’t work on Macs anymore, which makes Rakudo >>> Star kind of broken in Apple-land — at least it is when installed via >>> Homebrew. >>> >>> I have a patch written, but don’t know whether to ask PAUSE to transfer >>> the package maintainership to me, fork it (as Term::Readline or >>> somesuch)... or something else. >>> >>> It’s not a hugely complex package, and I can see myself maintaining it. >>> (I’m currently on the core team of a moderately popular Node.js package, >>> so I know the drill.) >>> >>> I read about Jeff, and he seems like an amazing person. So I want to be >>> very respectful. >>> >>> Please let me know what you think is best. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel Lathrop >>> https://daniel.buzz >>> >>> p.s. it already feels great to be in the Raku community. Everyone is so >>> darn nice. >>
