Bug#572432: REPL does not use JLine ConsoleRunner or another readline-style library

Ben Armstrong synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca
Wed Apr 7 13:21:54 UTC 2010


Package: clojure
Version: 1.1.0+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Consider recommending (or suggesting) rlwrap instead, as jline has a rather
annoying line-corruption bug I discovered (see #576814) that limits its
usefulness, and rlwrap is more featureful.  Example invocation:

rlwrap java -cp /usr/share/java/clojure.jar clojure.main

Supports saved history, reverse-incremental-search, paren flashing, and I am told,
even tab-completion that can learn from the expressions you type ...  All
around a much more featureful solution as well as being less buggy.

Ben





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