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- From: net@cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
- Subject: Re: Want history/command editing facilities in free Lisps
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.100402.8525@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@cs.tu-berlin.de
- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <HANCHE.92Dec9104214@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> <1992Dec15.034053.10061@midway.uchicago.edu> <4068@mitech.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:04:02 GMT
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- > 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.
-
- While we're at it-- how about symbol completion? How many times have
- you typed "call-with-current-continuation" in an interactive Scheme
- session *without* making a typo? (Not to mention the function
- "empty-list-is-false-for-backward-compatibility" that is provided
- by Elk 2.0a).
-
- Symbol completion should be easy to implement on UNIX systems that
- support a user-defined end-of-line character (like the tty interface
- of 4.3 BSD and the "termio" interface do).
-
- --
- Oliver Laumann net@cs.tu-berlin.de net@tub.UUCP net@tub.BITNET
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