Bug 469465 - readline doesn't work in maxima
Summary: readline doesn't work in maxima
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: maxima
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-01 02:03 UTC by Kieran Clancy
Modified: 2009-04-26 21:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-04-26 21:59:55 UTC
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Description Kieran Clancy 2008-11-01 02:03:17 UTC
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 21:35:34 UTC
Depends on which maxima-runtime-* pkg you're using.

Comment 2 Kieran Clancy 2008-11-02 02:45:09 UTC
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 21:59:55 UTC
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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