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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-12-28 21:21:36 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-12-28 21:21:36 (GMT)
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Clarified what Python versions the interactivity chapter applies to,
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@@ -3603,7 +3603,15 @@ input line and history substitution, similar to facilities found in
the Korn shell and the GNU Bash shell. This is implemented using the
\emph{GNU Readline} library, which supports Emacs-style and vi-style
editing. This library has its own documentation which I won't
-duplicate here; however, the basics are easily explained.
+duplicate here; however, the basics are easily explained. The
+interactive editing and history described here are optionally
+available in the \UNIX{} and CygWin versions of the interpreter.
+
+This chapter does \emph{not} document the editing facilities of Mark
+Hammond's PythonWin package or the Tk-based environment, IDLE,
+distributed with Python. The command line history recall which
+operates within DOS boxes on NT and some other DOS and Windows flavors
+is yet another beast.
\section{Line Editing \label{lineEditing}}