What's wrong with Windows Command Prompt (was Re: Error Testing)
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Mon Oct 21 16:29:43 EDT 2013
On 2013-10-21 15:55, David Robinow wrote:
> I wasn't aware that the interactive interpreter on Linux had
> features that the Windows version didn't. I'm curious what those
> features might be.
It's mostly the benefits that come from being built with the readline
library, meaning you get
- command history (Win32 offers this, the rest not AFAIK)
- command-history searchability (control+R)
- the ability to pull down things from previous lines (alt+period in
particular)
- the ability to comment out the currently typed command without
executing it (alt+octothorpe)
- the ability to prefix text/commands with a count
(alt+number_of_times followed by the character/command)
- the ability to insert matching filenames (alt+asterisk after typing
path relative to the $CWD)
- clearing to the start/end of line (control+U/control+K)
- the ability to paste content (control+Y) previously-cut by ^U/^K
- the ability to transpose adjacent words (alt+T)
- the ability to jump forward/backward to a specified character
(control+] and control+alt+] followed by the target char) like f/F
in vi/vim
Those are just a subset of the power offered by readline when built
into Python's interpreter, none of which work (other than that first
one) on Win32's cmd.exe (or, I suppose command.com).
-tkc
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