[Openmcl-devel] listener ? prompt - retrieve previously eval'd expressions?

[Ralf Mattes]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 06:08:31PM +0100, ◒ Simon Lucas ◒ wrote:
> Hi, I'm rediscovering common lisp after a long break, and wanted to know whether, in the CCL listener,  I can use something like the up-arrow to get to the buffer of previously evaluated expressions? I know it works in some Lisp Listeners.
> 
> I'm going through Winston's exercises and I think it would save me a lot of typing.
> 
> I'm using the standard Clozure CL editor.

I'm usually using the simple non-hemock solution of starting ccl with rlwrap
(http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap), available on many linux distributions.

This give you a nice readline wrapper (with persistant history and the usual 
line editing commands).

 HTH Ralf Mattes
> Thanks.
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