[IPython-dev] Weird history bug on OSX?

[MinRK]

I haven't looked into how much of it is libedit itself, but at least with
the current state of IPython deployed on top of it, I consider readline a
dependency of IPython for my personal use.  IPython with libedit is not at
all acceptable in my experience.

It's been a while (IP 0.9?) since I tried it out, though.

-MinRK

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 16:57, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm inclined to think it's an issue specific to libedit or something
> > in macports, but we may be feeding it bogus data.  I've never seen the
> > problem on linux.
>
> Duh, I should have said (since he does indicate that a readline
> install fixes things): should we explicitly *require* readline on OSX?
>  I know we have code that checks for libedit, but I don't know if
> libedit is actually usable at all.  So should our default stance be to
> require libedit being present on OSX unconditionally?
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
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