SBCL REPL use up arrow keys to show history

Question

I have installed SBCL onto OSX through Macports. When inside the REPL, it would be very convenient to be able to use ↑ and ↓ to iterate through the previous commands (similar to the behavior in bash or Python's REPL).

Is there a way to enable this functionality?

@LePetitPrince Seeing that you are the only person to provide anything close to an answer, you should change that comment to something I can mark as "accepted". — cwallenpoole, Feb 12 '15 at 04:35

Samuel Edwin Ward · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-23T05:22:48.883

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Install rlwrap and then run rlwrap sbcl.

You can get rlwrap through macports or homebrew.

It's pretty much as simple as that.

edited Apr 23 '15 at 05:22

answered Apr 15 '15 at 23:58

Samuel Edwin Ward

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This answer is works if `rlwrap` and `sbcl` are installed via `brew`. – Jim Barnett Apr 23 '15 at 00:40
thanks, now i can really have fun with it. – windmaomao Jan 13 '21 at 20:47

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '19 at 22:42

You could also also use Linedit. This is SBCL REPL specific, so it causes problems in other environments (like SLIME).

Or, you can try the SBCL-Readline project. Not sure how this works in SLIME, haven't tried it personally.

Both Uses UFFI to implement the use of C libraries. Just make sure to skim through the source code and change the paths to libraries etc for your system, before trying them out!

SBCL REPL use up arrow keys to show history

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