For linenoise I was not able to get saving history to work.
I'm having trouble getting breadline to install on Ubuntu on this old
laptop. I have libreadline-dev installed but when I do chicken-install
breadline I get:
matt@matt-HP-EliteBook-6930p:~$ chicken-install breadline
building breadline
Hello Matt,
> 4. Code completion works!! Maybe it is a bit much to ask but it'd be useful
> if completion rolled over from internal symbols to files. (*)
Fun fact: The default readline completer uses file names. If you change
it to something else you no longer get file names. Since the example
Updates:
1. breadline installed out of the box, no extra effort required, on SLES11
at work.
2. breadline did exactly what I expected when I added (repl) to the code in
the given csirc example and put it in my program.
3. ^R, history saving and all the other powerful features of readline all
seem
Hello again,
> I'll try to reproduce the issue with Ubuntu 18.04 in a Docker container
> or something.
Turns out that for some forsaken reason Ubuntu does neither provide a
`readline.pc` nor uses a reasonable path for headers and libraries.
There are two ways of working around this, one is settin