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Subject: Re: xterm rlwrap sbcl
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:01:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-12, Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
> I know next to nothing about terminals.  My .profile says TERM=xterm.
>
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm
>
> I really am running PuTTY on Windows and logging in to a FreeBSD system.
>
> When I invoke ``rlwrap sbcl'', I get a little bug:
>
> --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
> $ rlwrap sbcl
> This is SBCL 2.4.9, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> * (f(format t "hello~%")
> hello
> NIL
> --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
>
> Of course, I typed 
>
>   (format t "hello~%")
>
> but we end up seeing 
>
>   (f(format t "hello~%")
>
> If I type
>
>   (write-string "hello")
>
> we end up with 
>
> * (w(write-string "hello")
> hello
> "hello"
>
> You get the idea.  This doesn't happen with other programs.  It seems to
> be something specific to sbcl, though I could hardly believe that sbcl
> is guilty of anything here.
>
> Any remedies?

You can try using vim+slimv, it's much better than a simple REPL