RustyLine

Readline implementation in Rust that is based on Antirez' Linenoise

Documentation

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();
}

crates.io

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

[dependencies]
rustyline = "1.0.0"

Features

• Unicode (UTF-8) (linenoise supports only ASCII)
• Word completion (linenoise supports only line completion)
• Filename completion
• History search (Searching for Commands in the History)
• Kill ring (Killing Commands)
• Multi line mode
• Word commands

Actions

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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