Re: [MACTCL] Close to the source

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Phil,

Tcl has never had readline or some other fancy command line handler 
built in.  There were patches floating around for a while to do this, 
but it was felt that Tcl's use was more as a program runner, and less 
as an interactive shell, so burdening it with all the machinery of 
something like readline was counter to its real mission.

If you can get Wish running, you can use the TkCon app to get a nice 
interactive Tcl shell, however.

Jim

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 08:35  AM, Philip Aker wrote:

> 'nother thing that's come up is that tclsh out of the box doesn't 
> handle or inherit arrow key functionality whereas the other shells do 
> via some first sourced config or .rc file. Not the same as ~/.tcshrc 
> for example because you don't have to have one to get arrow key usage.
>
>
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Jim Ingham                                   ji...@ap...
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