[R] problem with "history"

[Thomas J Vogels]

(from below:)
> Perhaps a neutral name like "command-line editing"?  Any ideas for a
> shorter name?

You could make it really short, like "cli":

     cli: is the command line interactive (with editing and
          history mechanisms)?

or

     cli: is the command line interactive with (emacs- or vi-
          style) editing and command history?

Regards,
  -tom

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-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 11:42 AM
To: vogels at cmu.edu
Cc: Alberto Murta; Martin Maechler; R-help
Subject: RE: [R] problem with "history"


On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Thomas J Vogels wrote:

> Hi, having run into this problem (R's configure not picking up my readline
> lib) myself a couple times, I'm wondering whether the 'readline feature'
> could be added to the capabilities so that I could do:
>
> > capabilities()['readline']
>
> just like I can do today:
>
> > capabilities()['tcltk']
> tcltk
>  TRUE
>
> ?

It could, but it's a Unix-specific feature, and the idea of
capabilities() was to have a programatic way to use certain features
if they existed (or not if they did not), so this was not an obvious one.

Perhaps a neutral name like "command-line editing"?  Any ideas for a
shorter name?

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