Dear Juergen, I wasn't using --noRL. Perhaps that was the problem. Using SVN 457 I get:
$ apl --noRL 13 history lines read from file /home/blake/.apl.history ______ _ __ __ __ ___ ____ __ / ____// | / // / / / / | / __ \ / / / / __ / |/ // / / / / /| | / /_/ // / / /_/ // /| // /_/ / / ___ | / ____// /___ \____//_/ |_/ \____/ /_/ |_|/_/ /_____/ Welcome to GNU APL version 1.4 / 8248 Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Dr. Jürgen Sauermann Banner by FIGlet: www.figlet.org This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details run: apl --gpl. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it according to the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3 or later. uprefs.raw_cin: '0' at Output.cc:296 uprefs.raw_cin: '0' at Output.cc:296 uprefs.raw_cin: '0' at Output.cc:296 uprefs.raw_cin: '0' at Output.cc:296 uprefs.raw_cin: '0' at Output.cc:296 After that, I get a lot of debug output along with each keystroke. Thanks. Blake On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Juergen Sauermann < juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > 1. seems to work on my machine (SVN 455, with or without *readline* > installed): > > 2. fixed in SVN 456 (for readline, already worked for *--noRL*) > > 3. also seems to work as of SVN 455. > > Please make sure you use *--noRL* because the current default mode (use > *readline* if installed) > will disappear soon. If you like cursor up/down then you will like it in > ∇-editing mode (*--noRL* mode only). > > /// Jürgen > > > On 09/05/2014 03:38 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > > Feedback for revision 453 > > 1. x←⍞ > > returns without waiting for a user response > > same for x←⎕ but when I tried again ⎕ worked. Something wrong here. > > 2. I really liked up-arrow and down-arrow cycling through previous > input. Will we regain that? > > 3. Where are the line numbers? > > > ∇test > dfg > sdfgh > sfgh > ∇ > asd > VALUE ERROR > asd > ^ > > > Thanks! > > Blake > > > >