On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Torsten Otto <t-otto-news@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi!

My students have the task to program an interactive chatbot. We have run into a problem that I can't solve either:

When we read the user's input through
>   t <- getLine
it is not possible to delete typos before hitting enter and thereby sending the input off to the system (at least in OS X, bash). I didn't find that terribly problematic, but of course it is a bit of a show stopper from their point of view.

Is it possible that you need to tweak the input buffering settings?
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-IO.html#v:hSetBuffering

You probably want to look at 'interact' also.

Or just switch to readline as others have suggested.

Jason