Re: [Chicken-users] replacement for rlwrap on MS Windows, MinGW

[Christian Kellermann]

* Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> [130725 10:48]:
> * Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> [130725 10:29]:
> > * Peter Bex <address@hidden> [130725 08:59]:
> > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 06:57:56PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> > > > Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. The context is 
> > > > using the REPL on MS Windows. I prefer to use MinGW instead of Cygwin.
> > > > 
> > > > Are you saying that csi can be built to use parley to provide better 
> > > > history and line editing?
> > > 
> > > That's not neccessary; you can simply build parley and load it into
> > > your csirc startup file and it will take care of the rest.  See the
> > > parley manual page for more info on how to do that.
> > > 
> > > > Can this also be done on MS Windows?
> > > 
> > > I don't see why it shouldn't work, but it probably hasn't been tested yet.
> > > Just give it a go and see how far you get.
> 
> I see that stty needs some patching, I will see what I can do. Alex,
> have you got a stty version that's known to work on windows?

Ok, as a quick fix you need to chicken-install -r stty and comment
out three occasions of ECHOPRT. At least parley should work then
as this flag isn't used.

Please tell me how far you get.

Kind regards,

Christian

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