Still doesnt work.. I just get this when I hit the up arrow:<div>>>> ^[[A</div><div><br></div><div>Bah. It works in the 2.5 version that came packaged with it. Thanks for trying :)</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM, زياد بن عبدالعزيز الباتلي <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ziyad.albatly@gmail.com">ziyad.albatly@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:56 -0700<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">Eric Dorsey <<a href="mailto:dorseye@gmail.com">dorseye@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> I did an aptitute install of ibreadline5-dev and then<br>
> did ./configure and make again, and still don't have any<br>
> functionality to be able to hit up-arrow and get a command repeated<br>
> while inside the interpreter. Any ideas?<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>I don't know what's wrong, Python should pickup "libreadline" and use<br>
it automatically if it was installed.<br>
<br>
Try passing "--with-readline" to the "configure" script.<br>
<br>
If that doesn't help, then I'm sorry, I'm out of ideas.<br>
<br>
Hope that help.<br>
Ziyad.<br>
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