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Re: find s-expr in the REPL?
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: find s-expr in the REPL? |
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Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:11:04 +1000 |
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Daniel Llorens del Río <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Absolutely, that's what I mean. Actually, maybe I'd prefer up-arrow to
> show
>
> guile> (define (foo)
> ... (bar))
>
> just as I would have typed it. But that's a minor detail.
I suspect readline can't display like that.
> The idea is, I guess, to have readline split its history not by
> newlines but by matching parentheses at the top level, at least when
> they cross line boundaries. I'll look into that, thanks.
The notion of input continuation is there, but at the moment
add-history is used for each line. It ought to be just a matter of
holding lines until the start of the next continuation.
I'd think that could be just changed (don't bother with an option for
the current behaviour). bash works multi-line this way for instance.
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