[Pythonmac-SIG] readline: where and how installed?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, April 14, 2006, at 12:00PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

>> Terminal and xterm don't have readline capability, the shell (bash)
>> does. But that is of no use when you're in the python interactive
>> shell. Then having readline support in python is very handy.
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>Right you are, Ronald.  Thanks for the correction.  I never use them
>bare; I always run Emacs in them and create a shell buffer.
>Consistent editing everywhere.  OK, now I understand (though I still
>struggle to understand why people use raw terminal emulators, on
>modern machines; the ATK typescript ruined me :-).  And the IPython
>example makes sense, as well.

I could make some nasty remarks about emacs and you could then
strike back with remarks about vi, but lets not go there :-)

Ronald
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>Bill
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