Re: xterm rlwrap sbcl

On 2024-12-12, Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

I know next to nothing about terminals.  My .profile says TERM=xterm.
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$ echo $TERM
xterm
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I really am running PuTTY on Windows and logging in to a FreeBSD system.
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When I invoke ``rlwrap sbcl'', I get a little bug:
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--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/>.
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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---
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Of course, I typed
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  (format t "hello~%")
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but we end up seeing
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  (f(format t "hello~%")
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If I type
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  (write-string "hello")
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we end up with
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* (w(write-string "hello")
hello
"hello"
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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.
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Any remedies?

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