Of Malcolm
| Wallace
| Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:39 AM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Readline (was Re: state of ghc6 on sparc)
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| Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| > It would be nice to have those bindings but just having backspace and
| >
> Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It would be nice to have those bindings but just having
> backspace and
> > left-right cursors work would already be a huge improvement
> over nothing.
>
> OK, here is my contribution. The attached module SimpleLineEditor
> is API-compatible
'editline' is a (BSD style) free readline clone. it works quite well. of
course a haskell clone might be more convienient. a google search will turn
up various references to it.
John
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:46:43AM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:06 am, Malcolm
Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be nice to have those bindings but just having backspace and
> left-right cursors work would already be a huge improvement over nothing.
OK, here is my contribution. The attached module SimpleLineEditor
is API-compatible with readline, and is
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:09:14PM +0200, Josef Svenningsson wrote:
> The only thing that I don't like is that the dist isn't compiled with
> readline. It makes working in ghci a nightmare (I need to use backspace
> often...).
A nice workaround for programs not supporting readline is to use a
line
On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:06 am, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> As I see it, the main problem is reproducing all the keybindings.
> I'm certain that every user of readline has their own habitual set
> of emacs keystrokes that differs slightly from everyone elses, so
> inevitably the full complement wil
"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > | Making a working readline isn't that simple - you need to know something
> > | about the terminal properties for one, which means being able to use
> > | termcap or terminfo.
I expect that one can avoid termcap/terminfo by sticking to ANSI
terminal
> | > often...). The problem around this is in my opinion to make a
> | > Haskell98
> | > compliant trimmed down readline library which doesn't
> depend on the c
> | > library. It shouldn't be too difficult. I don't expect
> that people are
> | > using the full power of readline anyway.
> |
>
| > often...). The problem around this is in my opinion to make a
| > Haskell98
| > compliant trimmed down readline library which doesn't depend on the
c
| > library. It shouldn't be too difficult. I don't expect that people
are
| > using the full power of readline anyway.
|
| Making a working rea
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Isaac Jones wrote:
> > Can anyone enlighten me as to the state of the ghc6 sparc
> > distribution? The file on Hal's web page mentioned some
> time back is
> > not the same file as on the GHC web page (I note that the filenames
> > are different also).
> >
> > Are any of
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Isaac Jones wrote:
> Hello :)
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to the state of the ghc6 sparc
> distribution? The file on Hal's web page mentioned some time back is
> not the same file as on the GHC web page (I note that the filenames
> are different also).
>
> Are any of them
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