Re: [Jscheme-user] Patch: GNU readline editing/history in REPL

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Rusty was just cautioning me about adding any GPL software to JScheme.
Alan, can you use java-readline?

Also Tim is working on a scheme where we can contribute examples of using JScheme which include components under various licences.

I know there's been discussion about readline on the Guile mailing list.  Greg, can you comment on it?

BTW, i run JScheme in Emacs to be safe, so i don't need to add these features through another mechanism.  Am i just old, or what?
k
At 06:02 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
>Meant to send this to the list...
>
>On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 17:00 -0400, Ken Anderson wrote:
>> This is a C library right, what does it let you do.
>
>It gives you all the nice features like history with up arrow/down arrow
>access, tab completion (I think), basically everything you get with a
>mysql console, or python interactive mode, or bash. I understand that
>Jython uses Java-Readline http://java-readline.sourceforge.net/, which
>just JNI-wrappers the C library.
>
>It's definitely very nice and would make the jscheme interpreter act
>more like most commandline driven Linux tools.
>
>Unfortunately, GNU readline is GPL licensed (as you might imagine). My
>understanding is that there is a BSD licensed replacement
>(http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/), but I don't know how active
>or useful it is, and I don't know how well it works with Java-readline
>(which itself is LGPL). 
>
>mike
>
>> 
>> k
>> At 03:28 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, Alan Donovan wrote:
>> 
>> >Hello Schemers,
>> >
>> >I have a patch, if anyone is interested, that lets you use the GNU
>> >'readline' library for interactive expression editing in the REPL; it
>> >also supports S-expression history.
>> >
>> >Let me know if you're interested.
>> >
>> >alan
>> >
>> >
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