readline package with libedit

[Judah Jacobson]

On Jan 9, 2008 12:59 AM, Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
>
> By the way I've the following lines in my ~/.ghci
> from
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/998
>
> :m +System.Console.Readline Data.List
> getCompleterWordBreakCharacters >>= setCompleterWordBreakCharacters .
> Data.List.delete '/'
> :m -System.Console.Readline Data.List
>
> Does this work with libedit, too?
>
> Christian

Hm... It runs, but doesn't have any effect.  It looks like you need to
use setBasicWordBreakCharacters instead of
setCompleterWordBreakCharacters.  (ghci sets both, which is why I
didn't notice this before.)

Note that with my fix to #998 (sent to cvs-ghc), that hack should no
longer be necessary.

-Judah