liner
A Rust library offering readline-like functionality.
Featues
- Autosuggestions
- Emacs and Vi keybindings
- Multi-line editing
- History
- (Incomplete) basic and filename completions
- Reverse search
- Remappable keybindings
Basic Usage
In Cargo.toml:
[dependencies]
redox_liner = "0.5.1"
...In src/main.rs:
extern crate liner;
use liner::{Context, Completer};
struct EmptyCompleter;
impl<W: std::io::Write> Completer<W> for EmptyCompleter {
fn completions(&mut self, _start: &str) -> Vec<String> {
Vec::new()
}
}
fn main() {
let mut con = Context::new();
loop {
let res = con.read_line("[prompt]$ ", &mut EmptyCompleter).unwrap();
if res.is_empty() {
break;
}
con.history.push(res.into());
}
}See src/main.rs for a more sophisticated example.
License
MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file.