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Re: Readline not working anymore in interactive interpreters


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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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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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