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Re: Readline not working anymore in interactive interpreters
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, lefevrol at yahoo dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:17:28 -0600
- Subject: Re: Readline not working anymore in interactive interpreters
- References: <h46vlr$592$1@ger.gmane.org>
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According to Olivier Lefevre on 7/22/2009 6:12 AM:
> Since the last Cygwin update (I am now at 3.2.49(22)-release)
That's your bash version. What are your cygwin, libreadline6 and
libreadline7 versions?
> readline is no longer working in some interpreters started
> from the bash shell, i.e., the languages offer an interactive
> prompt and I used to be able to recall earlier commands
> with the arrow keys but no more. This still works from the
> shell prompt and from from some interactive interpreters
> (e.g., python) but not from all.
And an example of a failing interpreter would be...?
Without more details, I can't reproduce this. 'cygcheck -svr' output is
useful.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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