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Enable readline support in Panther's Python
Authored by: johnblommers on Jan 12, '05 05:25:39PM

Of course you meant to preface the command with sudo since you'd not normally be logged in a root ...



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Enable readline support in Panther's Python
Authored by: boredzo on Jan 12, '07 08:22:37PM

gnutar et al are not libraries. readline is a library, which means it gets combined with other programs, which creates GPL infections.

Mac OS X does come with the BSD libedit, which includes a readline compatibility API, but it does not provide vi mode as complete as readline's.



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