Command line editing.
Rolf Turner <rolf at math.unb.ca> writes:
Scrounging through the documentation some more, I saw it to indicate that if GNU readline is installed on the system, then R ***does*** provide command-line editing. So I got readline and installed it --- there seemed to be no problems with that. Then I (re) issued the ./configure, make, and make install commands for R. Then I fired up R, typed a few commands, and tried typing <ctrl>-p, which according to ``An Introduction to R'' by Venables and Smith et al., should take me to the previous command. Instead, I simply got ``^P'' appearing on the screen. What am I missing?
The build process probably needs help finding the readline libraries and/or header files. Where did you install them?
(***Please*** don't tell me to use ESS --- (a) I don't want to; I am emacs-averse. (b) I ***did*** try to install ESS, despite (a), and could not get that %%^#*#)%'-ing thing to work either!)
If at first, you don't succeed.... ;-)
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