History in port's cmd line available?

[James Berry]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:29 AM, James Berry wrote:

>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> Eckhard Wiemann wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> does anybody know if a command history is available in port's
>>> interactive mode? It would be nice if I could correct type-errors  
>>> in a
>>> more comfortable way than typing the line again. Tab-completion  
>>> would be
>>> appreciated, too.
>>
>> It is available, but only if you install from the dmg, or build from
>> source and pass --enable-readline to configure. (IOW, you lose  
>> readline
>> support when you selfupdate.)
>
> Hmm, kindof tweaky, but maybe we need a setting for extra  
> configuration to be passed into the selfupdate build?

Even better, maybe we can fix the readline and broader /usr/local  
issue by using the (new in gcc 4.3?) option -nostdinc?

James

>
>
> James
>
>>
>>
>> An alternative would be to not use interactive mode and install the
>> bash-completion port, which gives you tab completion for the port  
>> command.
>>
>> - Josh
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