[IronPython] IPCE and Mono 1.2 interactive interpreter sadness

[Anthony Baxter]

On 12/13/06, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at ximian.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > IPCE on Mono 1.1.17 works really nicely in interactive mode. Backspace
> > works, ^D to exit works, the lot. On 1.2.2, however, it's a world of
> > broken. Backspace is just insane, ^D stopped working again... it's
> > pretty much unusable. I'm not sure whether this is a Mono bug (in
> > which case it should be logged) or a problem with the IPCE code. Can
> > you provide a more informed opinion?
>
> I wonder if IPCE has any patches in the Console area in addition to
> standard IronPython, because we recently fixed the Console to work
> properly with IronPython (stock).

I'm not sure what you mean by "recently" - but in 1.2.2, it's still
broken with stock ipy.exe, under both xterm and gnone-terminal.

There's one patch that's in FePy that turns off the coloured console
output, but I don't see that causing this. See
http://fepy.sourceforge.net/patches.html