Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Axiom interface

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

| On October 14, 2006 6:19 PM William Stein wrote:
| > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:01:29 -0700, Bill Page  wrote:
| > > Great. Are you having any problems with the pexpect sychronization
| > > on you laptop? I am still not entirely satisfied that the process
| > > I use for disabling readline is reliable since it is done by a
| > > command that is sent while readline itself is still in place. On
| > > my laptop where Axiom was built without readline, everything
| > > seems ok to me but on the axiom-developer server I am having
| > > some problems. Since Axiom is built on Lisp it is easy to disable
| > > readline and then save a new copy of the Axiom binary which
| > > starts with readline disabled. Maybe this would be a good thing
| > > to do while installing Sage with Axiom?
| > 
| > I don't know.  We *do* want readline (or equiv) support when you
| > use Axiom from the command line.  I wouldn't want to ship an
| > axiom with SAGE that doesn't have readline support.
| >
| 
| Axiom has it's own built-in equivalent of readline called 'clef'.
| Clef also provides Axiom-specific command completions. Clef is
| functional whether or not readline is available in AXIOMsys. The
| only reason why readline is an issue is because in recent releases
| of GCL readline is compiled in by default and AXIOMsys is derived
| from GCL. Whether clef is enabled or not can be controlled from
| the axiom command line, i.e.

clef has the annoying property that whe suspended, and subsequently
resumed, ^P would *display* very strangely. :-(

-- Gaby