diff -r fe532dccf8f6 Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst Mon Apr 14 10:30:43 2014 -0400 +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst Mon Apr 14 22:10:16 2014 +0000 @@ -35,10 +35,8 @@ 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,