Re: readline problems

> Just a thought: Could this use of these two API functions (or whatever
> they are), rl_prep_terminal and rl_completion_append_characters, be
> made optional as part of the compilation process? Autotools could
> perhaps be able to figure out whether they are available? Just in the
> interest of cross-platform compatibility and the like... (Although
> supporting an ancient readline may not be that interesting, I suppose
> :)

If you want to write the autoconf deterction code for this, be my
guest.  GNU readline makes it impossible to detect at compile-time
which version you have, otherwise I would have used #ifdef in the
source.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)