[Python-Dev] oh, and any interest in my readline history stuff?
Barry A. Warsaw
bwarsaw@beopen.com
Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:54:36 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com> writes:
SM> I can use C-p to retrieve the lines and re-execute them. It's
SM> no better or worse than what bash does. In fact, with some
SM> versions of bash, it does recall entire multiline commands,
SM> for example, taking
| for f in `ls *.c` ; do
| echo $f
| done
SM> and returning
SM> for f in `ls *.c` ; do echo $f ; done
SM> instead when you retrieve it from the history. I find this
SM> particularly annoying and would much rather have the
SM> line-by-line recall that older versions of bash (and now
SM> Python) support.
Not me. I love this particular feature of bash. I'm using 2.03.
And it's one killer (IMO) feature of IDLE.
-Barry