[IPython-dev] [Pythonmac-SIG] readline support for OS X Leopard

[Boyd Waters]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Boyd Waters wrote:

> What I am doing at the moment is hard-coding the mapping of the tab-
> completion as a special case in IPython's rilneimpl.py


My iplib.py patch was broken, as I had used a dirty local copy of the  
subversion repository to generate the patch.

Very sorry.

Here are the patches that implement my Leopard EditLine hack against  
IPython-SVN (2007-10-30)

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I tested this process with a MacPorts port; here is that portfile:

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Perhaps if I learn more about the IPython prefs system I can generate  
a better patch in iplib,py

Right now this patch simply tells IPython to ignore any key-binding  
lines that are in ipythonrc if we are running a Python that uses  
EditLine instead of GNU readline. The rlineimpl.py patch figures out  
if we are running against EditLine, and if so it binds the completion  
function to the tab key.

This isn't great but it gets a part of my job done.



  - boyd

Boyd Waters
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Socorro, New Mexico
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bwaters