[IPython-dev] [Pythonmac-SIG] readline support for OS X Leopard

[Brian Granger]

Boyd,

Thanks, I am going to try to get Leopard installed in a spare drive
soon.  When that happens, I will test and apply the patch.

Cheers,

Brian

On 10/31/07, Boyd Waters <bwaters at nrao.edu> wrote:
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> On Oct 31, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Boyd Waters wrote:
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> > What I am doing at the moment is hard-coding the mapping of the tab-
> > completion as a special case in IPython's rilneimpl.py
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> My iplib.py patch was broken, as I had used a dirty local copy of the
> subversion repository to generate the patch.
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> Very sorry.
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> Here are the patches that implement my Leopard EditLine hack against
> IPython-SVN (2007-10-30)
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> I tested this process with a MacPorts port; here is that portfile:
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> Perhaps if I learn more about the IPython prefs system I can generate
> a better patch in iplib,py
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> Right now this patch simply tells IPython to ignore any key-binding
> lines that are in ipythonrc if we are running a Python that uses
> EditLine instead of GNU readline. The rlineimpl.py patch figures out
> if we are running against EditLine, and if so it binds the completion
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> This isn't great but it gets a part of my job done.
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>   - boyd
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> Boyd Waters
> National Radio Astronomy Observatory
> Socorro, New Mexico
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bwaters
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