[racket] No shortcuts on linux REPL

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Apr 6 06:51:24 EDT 2012

11 hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> You should look at the `readline' library [1], or at Eli's excellent
> XREPL library [2], both of which enable line editing.

(Actually it's just `readline' that does it; xrepl just uses it.)


9 hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> 
> Our interpretation of the readline license is that doing this would
> mean Racket (at least the command line) would need be distributed
> under the GPL.  See
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/readline/#%28part._readline-license%29 .

That was the best I could decipher from doing some searches a number
of years ago -- perhaps things have/will change...

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