selfupdate and readline support

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Mon Jan 12 17:01:39 PST 2009


Rainer Müller wrote:
> Joshua Root wrote:
>> This thread is what led to readline being disabled by default:
>> <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-November/006973.html>
> 
> So anyone who wants readline support should just install from the disk
> images? I think most people do not use the interactive port shell at all
> and do not need readline, therefore this should be a reasonable decision.
> 
> Thanks for digging in the archives for me ;-)

You can always wrap the interactive command with rlwrap or ledit to get history 
and in-line editing also.

Blair



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