On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> GCL will use GNU readline by default, and this is a good thing
> (e.g. command completion, command-line editing). GCL will
> automatically determine if the controlling terminal is readline
> capable (e.g. vt100, xterm ...) before enabling readline, and bypass
> readline initialization if the terminal is too 'dumb' (e.g. emacs
> shell buffer) In the latter case, Control-d works just fine -- in the
> former it cannot, because readline needs to map the control keys. I
> suppose a nice feature to add would be an environment variable which
> could disable readline initialization, so that one could get this
> behavior as desired at runtime even on xterms, etc. But really, I
> think you'll get a lot more out of readline in maxima than you lose
> with Ctrl-d when readline is initialized.
>
> Take care,
>
This is an accessibility issue not a preference one. While most people
have no trouble typing "quit();" I do. What I would prefer is
irrelevant, what I need is a simple one-hand gesture.
I also don't really believe readline is at fault. Bash uses it and has
no trouble understanding Ctrl-D.
I'll see if I can get around this but, if not, then I'll have to dump
maxima.
Thanks for responding.