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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-04-15 20:25:18 -0400 |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-04-15 20:25:18 -0400 |
| commit | 0e0e391fa3954a2583fe464504b86983a22d2577 (patch) | |
| tree | cce5dda53c374058a8f463f5eb03373014b3b13d /Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst | |
| parent | 65425b4bc6499bcbdf99ff1b82a02d8112359542 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-0e0e391fa3954a2583fe464504b86983a22d2577.tar.gz | |
#20874: update tutorial wording: sophisticated line editing is now standard.
Patch by Rafael Mejia.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index 8e8395a349..398ed72209 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -35,10 +35,9 @@ Windows) at the primary prompt causes the interpreter to exit with a zero exit status. If that doesn't work, you can exit the interpreter by typing the following command: ``quit()``. -The interpreter's line-editing features usually aren't very sophisticated. On -Unix, whoever installed the interpreter may have enabled support for the GNU -readline library, which adds more elaborate interactive editing and history -features. Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is +The interpreter's line-editing features include interactive editing, history +substitution and code completion on systems that support readline. +Perhaps the quickest check to see whether command line editing is supported is typing Control-P to the first Python prompt you get. If it beeps, you have command line editing; see Appendix :ref:`tut-interacting` for an introduction to the keys. If nothing appears to happen, or if ``^P`` is echoed, |