| Ticket UUID: | ed4c6100045e9efaa2c530617476b2771cb1eba3 | ||
| Title: | REPL | ||
| Type: | Bug | Created on: | 2019-06-08 04:05:55 |
| Submitter: | svnpenn | Assigned to: | nobody |
| Subsystem: | 20. [interp] | Severity: | Important |
| Priority: | 5 Medium | Last modified: | 2019-07-03 15:02:42 |
| Status: | Open | Closed by: | nobody |
| Resolution: | None | Closed on: | |
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| Description: | ||||
The Tcl REPL has an issue. With Python, Ruby, JavaScript and others, pressing "up" will give you the previous command. With Tcl, it just utterly breaks the session, requiring Ctrl+C or similar. | ||||
| User Comments: | ||||
svnpenn added on 2019-06-08 04:26:57:
Looks like it depends on the build - this one works as expected https://irontcl.com chrstphrchvz added on 2019-07-03 15:02:42:
You are probably looking for interactive "readline" support. There are multiple options for this; one "official" option is tclreadline. I think this functionality might be beneficial to have by default ("opt-out" rather than "opt-in") for usability, but I'm not sure the Tcl community would agree, for example due to the number of approaches, some of which require external software dependencies. | ||||