Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2012-05-10 Thread Eli Barzilay
Earlier today, John Clements wrote: > 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

Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2012-05-10 Thread Greg Hendershott
> 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

Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2012-05-09 Thread John Clements
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

Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2012-05-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
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 n

Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2011-11-12 Thread Rodolfo Carvalho
> > >> ...but it looks like it does try to load it for you. Did you play >> with the TERM environment variable by any chance? >> > > I don't have a TERM variable set, but I do have MINGW (Git Bash) installed. > > "racket -il xrepl" crashes both when run from plain CMD and from Git bash. > > Maybe

Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2011-11-12 Thread Rodolfo Carvalho
Hi Eli, On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 19:51, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > There is no need to use readline on Windows, since cmd does its own > thing anyway. > What if using Git Bash instead of plain cmd? > > > Should I expect XREPL to work normally under Windows? > > It should not try to load readlin

Re: [racket] XREPL on Windows

2011-11-12 Thread Eli Barzilay
10 minutes ago, Rodolfo Carvalho wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed the new Racket and I'm trying the new features. > Online syntax check works so nicely! > > I think I had some trouble trying to get readline (Racket > collection) to work some months ago, and I just figured out I > probably gav

[racket] XREPL on Windows

2011-11-12 Thread Rodolfo Carvalho
Hello, I just installed the new Racket and I'm trying the new features. Online syntax check works so nicely! I think I had some trouble trying to get readline (Racket collection) to work some months ago, and I just figured out I probably gave up (it does work well on Linux). Should I expect XREP