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REPL keybindings: ctrl-y should not kill session #8307

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scabug opened this issue Feb 18, 2014 · 7 comments
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REPL keybindings: ctrl-y should not kill session #8307

scabug opened this issue Feb 18, 2014 · 7 comments

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scabug commented Feb 18, 2014

scala, like (I think all) other interactive intepreters (like Ruby's irb, Python, etc) support things like C-r for reverse command search, C-a & C-e for home/end, C-k for killing (cutting) a line to the end, C-f and C-b for moving, C-d for forward-delete-char, etc; however, a really annoying deviation from this is the lack of support for C-y (paste last killed item from kill ring) (and therefore probably Alt-y as well), and not only lack of support but unexpected behavior: C-y actually stops the interpreter just the same as C-z.

(using C- to mean Ctrl-)

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scabug commented Feb 18, 2014

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-8307?orig=1
Reporter: Erik Allik (eallik)

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scabug commented Feb 18, 2014

@adriaanm said:
This works for me on 2.10.x and 2.11.x (same version of Mac OS). Which version of Scala are you using?

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scabug commented Feb 18, 2014

@adriaanm said:
Oh, sorry I misread your description: most of these work, but you also want support for C-y.

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scabug commented Feb 18, 2014

Erik Allik (eallik) said (edited on Feb 18, 2014 6:17:33 PM UTC):
Yes, exactly.

Oh, but, Ctrl-z is already doing the right thing (suspending the interpreter (which is a bit broken as well, but I've opened another ticket for that)—not sure why you added that as well.

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scabug commented Apr 16, 2014

Kenji Matsuoka (kamatsuoka) said:
Most things about Scala bring me great joy, but this one thing is a giant pain.

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scabug commented Apr 19, 2015

Li Haoyi (lihaoyi) said (edited on Apr 19, 2015 1:33:18 AM UTC):
This works in the Ammonite REPL.

@ val x = 123
x: Int = 123
@ abcdefg <CTRL-C>
@
@ x = "<CTRL-Y>"
@ x = "abcdefg"

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SethTisue commented Apr 29, 2020

C-y actually stops the interpreter just the same as C-z

I'm not able to reproduce this in 2.11.12 or 2.12.11 or 2.13.1 or 2.13.2

lack of support for C-y (paste last killed item from kill ring)

on this kind of thing, we take whatever JLine 3 gives us (JLine 3 is what we're using as of Scala 2.13.2; before that we were on JLine 2)

it works for me in both 2.13.1 and 2.13.2, not sure about older versions

@SethTisue SethTisue modified the milestones: Backlog, 2.13.2 Apr 29, 2020
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