Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 20:45 +0100, Philip Hölzenspies wrote:
On Nov 19, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Would it be worth adding this hard-won lore somewhere on a Wiki where it can be found later? Dear Simon, all,
I don't think logging a specific option on the Wiki is particularly useful (maybe you would have a default editrc file), because, of course, everybody has their own particular wishes.
I don't have any particular wishes. I just want it to "work" where "work" means does what the rest of my system does. I never configured readline, it came with sensible defaults (possibly set by my linux system distributor).
What I really think is that we should add back optional readline support. People building closed source ghc binaries would not use it but linux distros could enable it and provide a better "out of the box" experience. As I understand it there would be no licencing problems with that approach.
One downside I can see is that it gives us an extra configuration to test and maintain. It's hard enough keeping one line-editing binding working, let alone two! It's true that editline seems to have brought a bunch of headaches with it, though. Perhaps Haskelline is the way to go in the future. Cheers, Simon