From: Phil B. <20...@go...> - 2009-03-01 16:34:35
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2009/3/1 Alessio Stalla <ale...@gm...> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Phil Berry <20...@go...> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does someone know what I need to do to set the arrow keys (and in fact > the > > other keys) on Linux? When I load abcl.jar into an xterm window the arrow > > keys don't respond correctly: > > AFAIK on Linux arrow keys are not managed by the terminal/shell and > must be managed by the application (e.g. for C apps using the GNU > readline library, as CLISP does). > > If you don't mind using Emacs instead of the raw terminal, you can get > command history in Slime's REPL > (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Input-Navigation.html) > or in emacs shell mode (M-x shell). > > hth, > Alessio > Thanks (and to Julian). I'm looking at the rlwrap option at the moment. I was hoping I could bung the ablc.jar file onto a pen drive and have a copy of Lisp I could take with me. So Linux is a little more involved. Oh well. :-) I'm still getting up-to-speed with Lisp (and the benefit of ABCL is that it is Java-based, and so portable). So I want to focus my efforts on getting Lisp into my blood, rather than resolving application problems (which may mean going back to Windows rather than Linux -- bummer!). But if I still struggle with this I'll post back. Thanks again. Phil |