[Chicken-users] Configuring readline prompt

[Peter Wright]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use the readline egg for Chicken just to make it a
little easier to edit at the REPL. The readline.egg documentation
suggests adding these lines to ~/.csirc :

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(require 'readline)
(current-input-port (make-gnu-readline-port "csi> "))
(gnu-history-install-file-manager (string-append (or (getenv "HOME") ".") 
"/.csi.history"))
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This essentially works fine - the only problem is that you end up with
a really boring prompt. I prefer the default Chicken prompt that
includes a history number, eg.

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Version 2, Build 3 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 - [ dload ptables ]
(c)2000-2005 Felix L. Winkelmann
; loading /home/pete/.csirc ...
; loading /usr/lib/chicken/readline.so ...
#;1> 0
0
#;2>
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Is there a way to include this sort of information in the readline
string defined with make-gnu-readline-port?


Thanks,

Pete.
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