Re: [Chicken-users] handy inputrc - use chicken as a calculator

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:54:39 -0700 Shawn Rutledge <address@hidden> wrote:

> It's a little embarrassing that as long as I've been using Linux I
> haven't made better use of my ~/.inputrc.  It can override keymappings
> in programs which use libreadline, such as bash.  So I just added this
>
> # Insert command line to quickly eval an empty scheme expression
> "\es":"csi -p \"()\"\C-b\C-b"
>
> which will not only insert 'csi -p "()"' but also move the cursor back
> between the parentheses, when I press alt-S in a shell.  Seems kindof
> useful; of course I might think of a better way later, but I'm tickled
> pink so far.  ;-)
>
> Then again it's only useful in bash, but csi can itself use readline.
> Maybe there needs to be a push/pop model of some kind - ~/.csirc could
> somehow override key bindings when csi is started and then restore
> them on exit, and I could define lots of macros, some for the shell
> and some for chicken.  (And then have a hard time remembering them
> anyhow)  Just a random idea... not urgent enough for me to spend any
> time on at this point.

Nice tip, Shawn. :-)

Best wishes.
Mario
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