readline package with libedit

[Judah Jacobson]

Good point.  Fortunately, I'm testing everything on Tiger (10.4.10),
so this shouldn't be a problem.
-Judah

On Jan 9, 2008 2:13 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Judah,
>
> I completely agree that, at the least on the Mac, using editline is
> the best solution (as long all necessary functionality is supported).
>
> I am wondering, though, whether you are testing on Tiger or Leopard.
> When looking at the readline-emulation API of editline after upgrading
> to Leopard, I had the impression that it included much more
> functionality than it did on Tiger.
>
> Manuel
>
>
> > 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
>
>