Re: [Caml-list] Configure utop to use rlwrap/emacs history keys?

[Francois BERENGER <francois.c.berenger@vanderbilt.edu>]

On 04/14/2017 01:40 AM, Marshall wrote:
> Newbie question:

M-n (Meta = Alt) and M-p are the keyboard shortcuts your are looking for
(plain GNU Emacs defaults I believe).

> On OSX 10.11, I would like to configure utop so that Ctrl-P moves to the previously entered line of code, and so that Ctrl-N moves back down toward the most recent line.  According to what ‘man lambda-term-inputrc' and ‘lambda-term-actions’ say, it seems to me that I ought to be able to get this behavior by putting the following in .lambda-term-inputrc in my home directory:

I.e. replace Ctrl by Alt and do not configure anything to get that 
Emacs-like behavior.

> [read-line]
> C-p: next-line
> C-n: prev-line
>
> However, this configuration to have no effect.  I can move up and down through command history using the arrow keys, as I could without the rc file, Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N still do nothing.
>
> Thanks very much-
>
> Marshall
>