[Gcl-devel] Re: Readline

[Peter Wood]

Hi

Sorry for the delay.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:02:45AM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  OK, I think its fixed now in CVS and on the web page -- if
> (rl_line_buffer) *rl_line_buffer=0.  Any testing/confirmation would be
> most appreciated.
> 

I can confirm that cvs-gcl now seems to be working very nicely with
readline turned on.

> Separately, would it not be nice to have paren matching and history
> retrieval by complete form rather than line in this mode?  I know how
> to do the latter, but not really the former yet.
> 

Well thats good, since the former is _really_ easy :-) You can turn on
paren matching by having a file "~/.inputrc" with the line "set
blink-matching-paren on".  

> Anyone care about this?

History retrieval by form would be great.  What would be really nice
would be to open up access to readline functions (or maybe just some
of them) from lisp, but I guess that would be a can of worms, eh?

Regards,
Peter