[GAP Forum] Can't bind readline functions

[Horn, Max, Prof. Dr.]

Hi David,

> On 10. Feb 2020, at 16:32, David Madore <david+gapforum at madore.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Ralf wrote:
>> 							      I guess
>> there is nothing similar in gap?
> 
> One possibility might be to use the `rlwrap` utility, which provides a
> standardized readline interface to any program having a dumb
> input/output mechanism (the cost, of course, is that you lose any
> program-specific completion).  However, to do that, we should disable
> Gap's own readline, which the manual says `-E` should do but it
> doesn't seem to work as I expect.

The `-E` option disables GAP's readline interface and then instead the legacy
input code is activated, which implements our own prompt handling (that was
the default before GNU readline was used in GAP).

Regards
Max

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