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astoff / drepl

REPL protocol for the dumb terminal
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[FR] readline integration #2

Closed dcolascione closed 1 week ago

dcolascione commented 10 months ago

This library would be killer if it were integrated in readline. At a stroke, we'd have dynamic, robust completion support for bash, GDB, and myriad other programs. I'd been meaning to do something like this myself for years. Maybe we're almost here!

astoff commented 1 week ago

I tried some things but don't quite see a good way, for instance, to make a bash dREPL. So I wil close this ticket that has been lingering here for a while, but feel free to start another discussion if you have ideas.

dcolascione commented 1 week ago

A bash (or readline more generally) drepl would be exactly like shell-mode, but with Emacs based completion, multi-line editing, and so on. Seems feasible to me. Granted, core readline changes would be needed, but it's possible to make these changes.