Re: Utop autocompletion on Yosemite Mac

"Hongxu Chen [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:37:52 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.beginners
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I think you should configure the rebindings inside ~/.lambda-term-inputrc
rather than ~/.opam/.lambda-term-inputrc.

I also have issues to use keybindings on Mac, so I haven't tried that.

Best Regards,
Hongxu

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:58 AM, [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Much as in this Stackoverflow question(
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28671507/autocompletion-in-utop),
> autocompletion does not seem to work well in utop on my Yosemite mac.
>
>
>   The TAB key does produce the common prefix to all possible
> autocompletions.
>
>  However, I cannot move inside the autocompletion bar.
>
>
> The documentation says I should use M-left and M-right (I assume "left"
> and "right" mean the left and right arrow on my keyboard ?) but ALT+(left
> arrow) or ALT+(right arrow) do nothing. An answer to the above question
> suggested using ESC in place of ALT, but on my machine this seems to work
> or not work randomly.
>
>
>   I also tried following the instructions at
> https://github.com/diml/utop#key-bindings , put the newly created
> lambda-term-inputrc in my .opam/ directory, and opened a new utop,
> excepting then CTRL+(left arrow) and CTRL+(right arrow) to allow me to
> move inside the autocompletion bar.  But nothing had changed.
>
>
>    Any help appreciated.
>
>
> 
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