Re: [Chicken-users] GNU readline egg

[Category 5]

Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Oh, the error-handler resets the input-port (in case it changed during
> evaluation). Try putting `(current-input-port ...)' stuff in your
> ~/.csirc (this is loaded before the REPL).

Oh, I see - hadn't tried that yet.  Thanks.

> This is of course not good behaviour: instead of resetting the I/O
> ports to the state before the REPL entry, csi should reset the I/O
> ports to the state before the last evaluation (or not?).

I'd think this would make more sense, yes.  Maybe an emergency interrupt
mechanism (signal handler?) could be added for use in the event that the
interpreter gets very confused.

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