On May 6, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > On November 12th 2011, Eli Barzilay wrote: >> >> (Yeah, but like I said I have no experience with trying to get >> anything out of readline on windows. (At least not outside of a >> cygwin terminal.)) > > Xrepl still just avoids using readline on windows -- and it seems that > the situation in cygwin is now a little worse... The thing is that it > now ships with its own terminal application which Racket doesn't > recognize as a terminal (in the sense of `terminal-port?'). But more > than that, the dll is in a weird place and has a weird name: it's in > "/bin/cygreadline7.dll". > > The thing that makes it worse is that this terminal implementation > suffers from the common problem that plagued old terminals: the arrow > keys send escape codes to the application, but when these escapes are > printed the cursor moves to where you'd expect it to move. (For > example, run "cat" and then enter "foo<UP>bar<RET>" and see what > happens...) > > So my conclusion, for now, is that I don't see any way to make it > work, so I think that it's hopeless to get readline to work there. > Given that this looks like a common problem, I hope that things will > improve in a more transparent way.
Apologies in advance: I'm talking about something I know *almost* nothing about, but it appears that these days, "git" for windows ships with something that looks like a pretty complete "bash". Is this a viable alternative to cygwin, or are there a whole bunch of pieces that I don't know about? Ob google: this stack overflow thread corroborates my opinion, I believe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783906/git-under-windows-msys-or-cygwin John
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