function/variable name completion via rlwrap

Greetings!

Robert Dodier  writes:

> hello,
> 
> at present there is a script "rmaxima" which executes a program
> called "rlwrap" to provide readline capability for lisps which don't
> have that built in (namely cmucl and sbcl).
> it turns out rlwrap recognizes some options which enable
> keyword completion and other useful capabilities.
> this seems to work OK:
> 
>   rlwrap  --complete-filenames  --file  builtins-list.txt  --remember  maxima
> 
> then typing something like "foo" either completes "foo"
> if there is only one name beginning w/ "foo" or shows the list
> of all such names (if there is more than one).
> 
> builtins-list.txt is a list of built-in function and variable names.
> (http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/maxima/maxima/share/builtins-list.txt)
> the --remember option tells rlwrap to remember words which
> are entered, so new function and variable names are also
> recognized and autocompleted.
> 
> the --break-chars and --always-readline options are also useful.
> 
> clisp and gcl have readline built in, but clisp doesn't have
> autocompletion enabled and gcl has a list of lisp function
> names for autocompletion. so using rlwrap is useful with
> clisp and gcl as well.
> 

I thought GCL provided completions based on the symbols in the current
(i.e. maxima) package, no?

Take care,

> for what it's worth,
> robert dodier
> 
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