tab completion doesn't work on OS X

[andychu]

I just tried 0.6.pre14 on OS X and the tab completion is funny.

This is likely a combination of 2 factors:

• I copied a bunch of readline #defines from pyport.h into Modules/readline.c. Python's autotools ./configure detects some readline features, but ours doesn't. And they are likely different on OS X.
• OS X uses libedit, not GNU readline (I think)

TODO: Get a copy of Python's pyconfig.h on OS X? Is it always the same?

[andychu]

I tried copying #defines from pyconfig.h on OS X into Modules/readline.c, but it didn't work. Tab just displays tabs.

It would be interesting to know if the dev build of Oil works on OS X, using their own readline module.

I would like some help with this issue, but be warned that the way I modified the CPython build is pretty weird.

[andychu]

Hm the standalone demoish.py doensn't work on my Mac either (running under its own Python 2.7.10 build). Hitting tabs shows tabs rather than performing completion.

https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/tree/master/interactive-shell