The libeditline used by nix is not packed for Debian

[KaiHa]

The libeditline (see here) that is used by nix is not available on Debian. Currently I try to figure out if one of the libraries that is available on Debian is compatible.

[KaiHa]

Neither libeditline, libedit2 nor libreadline are 100% compatible. Will try my luck with libreadline. See here:

https://github.com/KaiHa/nix/commits/kaiha/libreadline_option
https://github.com/KaiHa/nix-debian/commits/wip/readline

[KaiHa]

Created a pull request to add support for libreadline into nix.

[KaiHa]

Pull request was merged. Looking forward to nix 2.2.

[cyraxjoe]

@KaiHa did you verified that readline worked as expected? History is not working for me when using nix repl . It build and links just fine (debian buster), but the history (and auto complete) is not working. But the repl is not crashing or anything, is simply not writing the history in the history file.

This is for the libreadline 7.

[KaiHa]

@cyraxjoe, it is working for me on Stretch. I am wondering if I did some configuration in the inputrc (man readline), I can't tell for sure.

Tab completion will not work, that is the only limitation I can remember.

[KaiHa]

Hmm, on Buster history is also not working for me. I will be tracking this in #28.