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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses "readline" USE flag
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:44:24
Message-Id: 20120908004128.GA6910@waltdnes.org
1 I updated world yesterday, and discovered that bash functionality was
2 severly degraded on my machine. No up-arrow to scroll through history,
3 no tab-completion, etc, etc. A bit of Google searching turned up the
4 fact that bash no-longer uses an internal "readline" library, but now
5 depends on the "readline" USE flag for this functionality. If you don't
6 have "readline" globally enabled set...
7
8 app-shells/bash readline
9
10 ...in package.use.
11
12 --
13 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
14 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses "readline" USE flag Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>