rustyline 1.0.0

Rustyline, a readline implementation based on Antirez's Linenoise
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Readline implementation in Rust that is based on Antirez' Linenoise

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Supported Platforms

  • Linux
  • Windows
    • cmd.exe
    • Powershell

Note: Powershell ISE is not supported, check issue #56

Build

This project uses Cargo and Rust stable

cargo build --release

Example

extern crate rustyline;

use rustyline::error::ReadlineError;
use rustyline::Editor;

fn main() {
    // `()` can be used when no completer is required
    let mut rl = Editor::<()>::new();
    if let Err(_) = rl.load_history("history.txt") {
        println!("No previous history.");
    }
    loop {
        let readline = rl.readline(">> ");
        match readline {
            Ok(line) => {
                rl.add_history_entry(&line);
                println!("Line: {}", line);
            },
            Err(ReadlineError::Interrupted) => {
                println!("CTRL-C");
                break
            },
            Err(ReadlineError::Eof) => {
                println!("CTRL-D");
                break
            },
            Err(err) => {
                println!("Error: {:?}", err);
                break
            }
        }
    }
    rl.save_history("history.txt").unwrap();
}

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You can use this package in your project by adding the following to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rustyline = "1.0.0"

Features

Actions

Keystroke Action
Ctrl-A, Home Move cursor to the beginning of line
Ctrl-B, Left Move cursor one character left
Ctrl-C Interrupt/Cancel edition
Ctrl-D, Del (if line is not empty) Delete character under cursor
Ctrl-D (if line is empty) End of File
Ctrl-E, End Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl-F, Right Move cursor one character right
Ctrl-H, BackSpace Delete character before cursor
Ctrl-I, Tab Next completion
Ctrl-J, Ctrl-M, Enter Finish the line entry
Ctrl-K Delete from cursor to end of line
Ctrl-L Clear screen
Ctrl-N, Down Next match from history
Ctrl-P, Up Previous match from history
Ctrl-R Reverse Search history (Ctrl-S forward, Ctrl-G cancel)
Ctrl-T Transpose previous character with current character
Ctrl-U Delete from start of line to cursor
Ctrl-V Insert any special character without perfoming its associated action
Ctrl-W Delete word leading up to cursor (using white space as a word boundary)
Ctrl-Y Paste from Yank buffer (Meta-Y to paste next yank instead)
Meta-< Move to first entry in history
Meta-> Move to last entry in history
Meta-B, Alt-Left Move cursor to previous word
Meta-C Capitalize the current word
Meta-D Delete forwards one word
Meta-F, Alt-Right Move cursor to next word
Meta-L Lower-case the next word
Meta-T Transpose words
Meta-U Upper-case the next word
Meta-Y See Ctrl-Y
Meta-BackSpace Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the previous word

ToDo

  • Show completion list
  • Undos
  • Read input with timeout to properly handle single ESC key
  • expose an API callable from C

Wine

$ cargo run --example example --target 'x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
...
Error: Io(Error { repr: Os { code: 6, message: "Invalid handle." } })
$ wineconsole --backend=curses target/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/debug/examples/example.exe
...

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