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bug#15221: reiterating the request
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
bug#15221: reiterating the request |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:32:40 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Tom,
Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi. I tried guile today and was surprised to find that it doesn't use
> readline by default. I think this would be a big improvement to the
> REPL.
>
> Second best would be a command line option, or editing some config file.
You can enable it by adding the following two lines to your ~/.guile:
(use-modules (ice-9 readline))
(activate-readline)
See <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Readline.html>.
I'm sympathetic to the desire to enable it by default, but I'm not sure
how to navigate the license issue, namely that GNU Readline is
GPL-licensed, whereas Guile is LGPL-licensed.
Regards,
Mark