Ticket 31216 / Python libedit

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-11-11 00:12 , Chris Perl wrote:
> As per [1], it appears that all version of python were recently
> switched to using libedit instead of readline.  As a pretty heavy user of
> the python interacitve interpreter this has caused me some issues.
>
> By default, it appears that a bunch of the readline emacs bindings I use
> on a daily basis are not bound.  For example:
>
>    "M-B"  backward-word
>    "M-F"  forward-word
>    "M-D"  kill-word
>    "C-_"  undo
>
> I've been reading EDITRC(5) and trying to get a workable .editrc that
> mimics the readline functionality I'm used to, but its not going so
> well.  Some things like undo just don't seem to do what I'm expecting
> them to do.
>
> I'm sure if I put enough effort in, I could figure out some kind of
> workable solution.  However, what I really want is a consistent line
> editing environment between my shell of choice (bash) and the python
> interactive interpreter.
>
> How about the idea of adding a "readline" variant to python to allow it
> to build against readline instead of libedit?
>
>
> Chris
>
> 1.  https://svn.macports.org/ticket/31216

A readline module linked against GNU readline is available in the 
py*-readline ports.

- Josh