Jaime E. Villate ?????:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:05:15PM +0300, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
>
>>(2) readline support is built-in but not activated. There is simple
>>way to check it. Try the following command at Maxima prompt
>> :lisp (si::init-readline)
>
>
> Hi Vadim,
> thank you very much for that trick which I didn't know. Now I have
> some questions for you or others in this list:
>
> 1- how can I activate readline automatically without having to type
> that command at the start of every session?
Put it in your Maxima initialization file maxima-init.lisp
(must be somewhere in /usr/share/maxima ...)
> 2- I used to exit Maxima (5.9.0, GCL-2-6.0999999999999996) with C-d,
> but after activating readline that does not work anymore and I have
> to use "quit()". Is there another way to quit?
> 3- in xmaxima, the up arrow moves the cursor on the screen instead of
> accessing the readline history; is there some way to use readline
> in xmaxima?
>
> Regards,
> Jaime
>
Probably the answer for 2 and 3 is No. But I'm not 100% sure.
I recall some thread about GCL, readline and ^D issue a while
ago (probably in GCL's list not in Maxima's one) but I don't
remember the net result.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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