On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> I discovered that after some recent updates rmaxima
> is partially broken on my Linux system.
> Command history is still editable but something
> weird happen to command prompts. Certainly it is
> not rmaxima problem. Something is bad with rlwrap -
> readline wrapper which rmaxima uses.
> I observe similar problem with prompts when run cmucl
> or sbcl under rlwrap directly.
> Probably current version of rlwrap is not compatible
> with new readline 5. rlwrap 0.24 + redaline 4.3 worked
> for me without problems.
I see no problems with the following combination (Gentoo current):
readline-5.1_p4
rlwrap-0.21
(prompts, previous input recall and editing, tab completion work).
rlwrap-0.24 is not yet considered stable in Gentoo, so, I did not uprade
it.
Andrey