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 are, Ronald. Thanks for the correction. I never use them >bare; I always run Emacs in them and create a shell buffer. >Consistent editing everywhere. OK, now I understand (though I still >struggle to understand why people use raw terminal emulators, on >modern machines; the ATK typescript ruined me :-). And the IPython >example makes sense, as well. I could make some nasty remarks about emacs and you could then strike back with remarks about vi, but lets not go there :-) Ronald > >Bill > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig