From my GitHub Discussions post:
Use readline as an alternative of editline (MacOS)
These directions ought to work in different Unix-like/Linux OSes along with MacOS.
Disable editline
Edit ~/.editrc and determine what to take away. Then add:
edit off
or prefix it with the applying identify or regex to restrict which of them have editline disabled:
python3:edit off
The one line I beforehand had in that file was bind -e which I eliminated.
You may present a number of prefixed strains (or an acceptable regex) to have the command apply to extra purposes.
Set up rlwrap
brew set up rlwrap
rlwrap has a bunch of choices, see the output of:
rlwrap --help
or the man page.
Edit ~/.inputrc
If it’s worthwhile to make any adjustments or additions to readline bindings you’ll be able to edit this file. If you wish to have configurations for explicit applications wrap the settings in $if conditionals.
For system-global configuration, use /and so forth/inputrc. However word {that a} user-local configuration utterly overrides the worldwide one as an alternative of being preferentially merged. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to embrace the worldwide file (or others) utilizing $embrace. Placement of these strains inside a file controls priority.
Create aliases
In your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc or different startup recordsdata (relying on how your shell is began), create aliases to make the usage of rlwrap extra handy. For instance:
alias python3='rlwrap python3'
I preserve my aliases in a separate file and supply them in my predominant startup file. I exploit ~/bin/aliases however ~/.aliases is one other suggestion.
You may as well run applications on an ad-hoc foundation with out an alias by prefixing this system identify with rlwrap adopted by an area (however with out the encompassing quotes seen within the alias command).
Alter your historical past recordsdata
For instance, my Python historical past file was ~/.python_history however the one created after utilizing rlwrap is ~/.python3_history. As an alternative of adjusting some configuration, I simply renamed my outdated historical past so I might proceed to make use of it:
mv ~/.python_history ~/.python3_history
Get pleasure from!
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And that is not all…
Strive it with MySQL and others, too!
