Bug 469465 – readline doesn't work in maxima

Bug 469465 - readline doesn't work in maxima

Summary:	readline doesn't work in maxima

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	maxima (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Rex Dieter
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Reported:	2008-10-31 22:03 EDT by Kieran Clancy
Modified:	2009-04-26 17:59 EDT (History)
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Description Kieran Clancy 2008-10-31 22:03:17 EDT

Description of problem:
Can't use arrows and readline features in maxima.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
maxima-5.15.0-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to use arrow keys, ^A, ^E, Home, End, etc in maxima
  
Actual results:
Get lots of ^[[A^[[A control sequences showing up in the terminal.

Expected results:
Moves cursor left or right, to the start or end of the line, moves through previously entered lines, etc.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-11-01 17:35:34 EDT

Depends on which maxima-runtime-* pkg you're using.

Comment 2 Kieran Clancy 2008-11-01 22:45:09 EDT

According to RPM:
maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.15.0-1.fc9.i386

I suppose that this must be the one that yum pulled in when I typed 'yum install maxima'.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2009-04-26 17:59:55 EDT

For what it's worth, some lisp runtimes provide readline support and others don't.  maxima-runtime-sbcl happens to be one that doesn't.

I believe gcl, clisp *do* include readline support (and sbcl doesn't).

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