Re: readline support + history in interactive mode

  • From: Юрий Соколов <funny.falcon@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0400

rlwrap ?


2013/3/14 Coda Highland <chighland@xxxxxxxxx>

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <mva@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > I know, that it is rarely repeated request. I also know, that Mike's
> > opinion, that interactive mode is not main LuaJIT's goal.
> >
> > But I very, VERY miss history in interactive mode. And I also use LuaJIT
> > instead (not together) of plain Lua, so I unable to use plain Lua for
> > interactive mode ;)
> >
>
> It's not just that it's not within LuaJIT's mission; the licensing is
> a bit of a problem -- readline is GPL. There are a couple different
> wrappers you can use to give readline/linenoise functionality to the
> LuaJIT interactive mode, which further makes it unnecessary to include
> in the LuaJIT binary. Check out rlwrap or rlfe.
>
> /s/ Adam
>
>

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