Re: [Chicken-users] replacement for rlwrap on MS Windows, MinGW

[Claude Marinier]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:01:47PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> > ConEmu does not seem to provide additional command line editing but it
> > supports ANSI escape sequences. One could do the same with Console2 in
> > combination with ansicon but, yes, ConEmu is better.
> >
> > Linenoise uses just a few ANSI escape sequences which should work with
> > ConEmu.
> >     http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/linenoise
> >     https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
> >
> > Could we hack csi.scm to use linenoise? I have doubts. It looks complicated.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but there are already three eggs which
> implement line editing and command history for csi.  There are the
> readline, linenoise and parley eggs.  Parley is the recommended to use,
> because it is in pure Scheme and does not block threads while reading from
> the input port.
>
> See http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/parley for more info.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Peter
> --
> http://www.more-magic.net

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. The context is 
using the REPL on MS Windows. I prefer to use MinGW instead of Cygwin.

Are you saying that csi can be built to use parley to provide better 
history and line editing? Can this also be done on MS Windows?

Thanks.

--
Claude Marinier