Re: [dev] [sic] srw - simple read wrapper

Dietline/rline also do this

On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>
wrote:

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> On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:04, pancake wrote:
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>> I was quite happy when i read about linenoise..but after reading
>> the code..
>>
>> how can somebody say that such code can replace readline? It just
>> read lines
>> and supports history. nothing more, there's no autocompletion and
>> does not works
>> on windows.
>
> It also supports line editing, which is immensely valuable. In fact
> I only looked at linenoise because I needed line editing. It's
> misses a lot of keybindings I'm used to, but then so do many console
> apps.
>
>>
>> Some years ago I wrote 'dietline' which works on windows, osx,
>> linux, bsd.. using
>> scape codes, supports autocompletion, history and it's about 700LOC
>> It really
>> needs some work to have a standarized way to autocomplete (i didnt
>> really liked
>> the readline way).
>>
>> dietline is now in r2 renamed as r_line. If somebody feels bored
>> and wants to
>> finish the autocompletion callback, just ping me.
>>
>> If i would just wanted to have history i could probably do it in
>> 50LOC.
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:55:27 -0700
>> Evan Gates <evan.gates_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
>>> <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 24 Jun 2010, at 07:10, anonymous wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Works nice, but with 9term it is possible to move cursor and edit
>>>>> line. If you don't want to use readline (because of license),
>>>>> you can
>>>>> use libedit from BSD.
>>>>
>>>> Or linenoise[1], which sucks vastly less than either. :)
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://github.com/antirez/linenoise
>>>>
>>>> It's a single C file of 432 lines as opposed to libedit's 20k and
>>>> readline's
>>>> 30k, and works with perhaps > 99% of the terminals still in use,
>>>> as nearly
>>>> all terminals respect vt100 escape codes. I was introduced to it
>>>> the other
>>>> day when looking for something to make rc usable on a machine
>>>> where 9term
>>>> just isn't working out, one way or another.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Quick clarification, srw does not use readline, it uses the ansi
>>> escape codes and is as of this writing 143 sloc according to
>>> sloccount.
>>>
>>> linenoise seems interesting, I'll have to check it out.
>>>
>>> -emg
>>>
>>
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