state of ghc6 on sparc

[John Meacham]

'editline' is a (BSD style) free readline clone. it works quite well. of
course a haskell clone might be more convienient. a google search will turn
up various references to it.
        John

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:46:43AM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2003 11:06 am, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > As I see it, the main problem is reproducing all the keybindings.
> > I'm certain that every user of readline has their own habitual set
> > of emacs keystrokes that differs slightly from everyone elses, so
> > inevitably the full complement will need to be supported.  Then there
> > is parsing of the .inputrc file which can /re/bind any keystroke.
> > And of course, just to be awkward, there are vi-mode users like me,
> > where the keystroke set is entirely different anyway.
> 
> It would be nice to have those bindings but just having backspace and 
> left-right cursors work would already be a huge improvement over nothing.
> 
> --
> Alastair
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