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I've moved this to the contrib/misc area for peoples downloading pleasure. enjoy, -pate >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Archibald <aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> writes: Andrew> Hi, Andrew> I have added some features to guile's readline ports, Andrew> including: Andrew> - Prompts based on a thunk (eg, (current-module)) - Andrew> Completion on identifiers (using apropos-internal) - Andrew> Customizable completion - UI prettification: Just do Andrew> (use-modules (ice-9 readline)) (readline-start) ; from an Andrew> interactive prompt (readline-repl) ; from a script Andrew> The patch is on ftp.red-bean.com in incoming. readline Andrew> support should probably be rearranged into a separate Andrew> package which gets dynamically loaded, but I couldn't Andrew> figure out autoconf/automake. <GRUMBLE>the autoconf Andrew> documentation could use even one example...</GRUMBLE> Andrew> To install: apply the patch, make sure use have Andrew> libreadline installed, and reconfigure/recompile libguile Andrew> (sorry!). Andrew> Anyway, I hope someone finds this useful (preferably it'd Andrew> get into the core distribution). Andrew> Andrew aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca