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diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index 7171c6f..dc59074 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -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}} |