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- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Want history/command editing facilities in free Lisps
- Message-ID: <4068@mitech.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 10:49:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.150654.6516@st-andrews.ac.uk> <HANCHE.92Dec9104214@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> <1992Dec15.034053.10061@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.034053.10061@midway.uchicago.edu>, ab2r@quads.uchicago.edu (Marshall Abrams) writes:
- > I'm really thankful to all of the free Lisp and Scheme
- > implementors out there, but I want to put in a plug for adding a
- > command line editing/history mechanism to these programs. If I
- > were a real C programmer, and had time, I suppose I'd do it
- > myself.
-
- You don't need to create any new program. The GNU software has a subroutine
- library for adding command-line editing.
-
- On the other hand, it is not unusual to find that command line
- editors (and/or fancy rubout handlers) are in fact LARGER than
- otherwise complete LISP implementations like SIOD.
-
- Everything has its cost.
-
- -gjc
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