To answer the specific question. You can switch between version of installed brew packages which are still around locally as explained in this question: Homebrew install specific version of formula? To downgrade to readline 6.x the following command worked for me: brew switch readline 6.3.8
Looks like from some reason you are missing the readline package. Simply install it by typing pip install readline and it should behave as expected. Remember to type it as superuser if you’re not in venv.
Apple does not ship GNU readline with OS X. It does ship BSD libedit which includes a readline compatibility interface. The system Pythons shipped by Apple and the 64-bit/32-bit Pythons from python.org installers are built with libedit. The problem is that the commands supported by libedit are completely different from those of readline (see for … Read more
I had a similar problem it was with 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04, but the symptoms were identical. In order to get it to work: rvm pkg install readline or prior to RVM version 1.6.32, you need the following command rvm package install readline Then: apt-get install ncurses-dev And then taking from their instructions at http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/packages/readline/ … Read more
Just in case someone stumbles upon here in future Node 11.7 added support for this using async await const readline = require(‘readline’); //const fileStream = fs.createReadStream(‘input.txt’); const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, //or fileStream output: process.stdout }); for await (const line of rl) { console.log(line) } Remember to wrap it in async function(){} otherwise you … Read more
is there any performance difference related to these methods? YES there is a difference File.ReadAllLines() method reads the whole file at a time and returns the string[] array, so it takes time while working with large size of files and not recommended as user has to wait untill the whole array is returned. File.ReadLines() returns … Read more
My Bash works as you are expecting. Maybe hitting Ctrl + C instead of Esc can help. Also, you can search forward using Ctrl + S. Ctrl + S works if it does not send a “stop” to your terminal, i.e., if “stty -a” gives you “-ixon”. You can change it by “stty -ixon”. Thanks … Read more
lines = open(filename).read().splitlines()
In case someone’s wandering in here recently, IPython 5.0 switched from readline to prompt_toolkit, so an updated answer to this question is to pass an option: $ ipython –TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode=vi … or to set it globally in the profile configuration (~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py; create it with ipython profile create if you don’t have it) with: c.TerminalInteractiveShell.editing_mode=”vi”
The term you want to google for is: “readline arguments” This will lead to, for example, this chapter from the bash reference manual: You can pass numeric arguments to Readline commands. Sometimes the argument acts as a repeat count, other times it is the sign of the argument that is significant. If you pass a … Read more