Re: [XBoard-devel] readline support/ICS input box

[Michel Van den Bergh]

On 12/02/2010 08:44 PM, Arun Persaud wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 11/30/2010 10:24 PM, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
> > Is this open for discussion? I really, really liked the readline
> > support (including in OS X), and sorely miss it now that it's gone.
> > I'll volunteer to help debug whatever issues plagued the OS X build if
> > it helps bring it back.
> I think everything is open for discussion ;)
>
> The problem is that we would need someone to implement it correctly...
> HGM is working on lots of things already and I only have limited time,
> so we would need someone to work on this...
>
> In the long run, as HGM pointed out, we also want to get rid of the
> xterm input/output, so it would probably be better to spend time on
> debugging the color-output problems in HGM's branch than getting
> readline to work.
>
> That said, if you really like the feature and want to work on it, feel
> free to do so :)
>
> Also let us know if the TOPLEVEL flag HGM mentioned solved your problem,
> perhaps we need to document these things better, so that people know
> about their options...
>
> cheers
>         ARUN
At the risk of pointing out the obvious. You can start xboard with rlwrap:

rlwrap xboard


and then you automatically have readline support with no issues as far 
as I can tell.
I have always been doing this.

Michel