Re: using guile's readline module

[Gene Pavlovsky]

guile> (readline-set! bounce-parens 50)
<unnamed port>: In expression (readline-options-interface (append # #)):
<unnamed port>: Unbound variable: readline-options-interface
ABORT: (unbound-variable)

Type "(backtrace)" to get more information or "(debug)" to enter the debugger.


I'm using guile 1.6.7 on gentoo linux (kernel 2.6.12), readline 5.0

Neil Jerram wrote:
> Gene Pavlovsky <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> 
>>guile> (readline-set! 'bounce-parens 50)
>><unnamed port>: In expression (readline-options-interface (append # #)):
>><unnamed port>: Unbound variable: readline-options-interface
>>ABORT: (unbound-variable)
> 
> 
> Does it work if you omit the quote?  In other words, like this:
> 
> (readline-set! bounce-parens 50)
> 
> (For some reason, possibly analogy with set!, the xxx-enable and
> xxx-disable procedures of the options interface take a quoted option
> name, but xxx-set! takes its option name unquoted.)
> 
> 
>>Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I think that I follow the manual.
> 
> 
> The manual has examples which show this, but it isn't explicit on the
> point.
> 
> 
>>The second issue is that when I type something, during the time when
>>the matching paren is highlighted (and that is 500 ms by default),
>>guile doesn't accept any input, so every time I close a paren, I get
>>to wait 500 ms to type more. Both gauche and csi with readline
>>modules installed don't hang like this, so I think it's a
>>guile-specific bug.
> 
> 
> I probably can't help here, but what OS and Guile version are you
> using?
> 
>         Neil
> 
> 

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