Closed mwgkgk closed 6 years ago
That's probably because min REPL internally uses nimline for line editing. It's a tiny surrogate for readline, just it is implemented in pure Nim and works on Windows as well, without relying on libreadline.
Of course not all shortcuts work, I only focused on providing the essential ones like tab completion, history, go to end/start of line, kill line, etc. What are you missing exactly and what platform are you running on?
Oh, I see. I think of readline as a de-facto standard that you can meet even in places like world of warcraft macro window / login screen, even this very editor :) The widespread bindings are emulating emacs ones, there's also a vi mode.
Things lacking (that I use):
Ctrl-a move cursor to beginning of the line
Ctrl-f move forward a character
Ctrl-b should move backward a character (currently moves cursor to beginning of a line)
Alt-f Move forward to the end of the next word.
Alt-b Move back to the start of the current or previous word
Ctrl-p Previous item in history
Ctrl-n Next item in history
Ctrl-k Kill til end of line
Ctrl-u Kill whole line
Ctrl-w Kill word backward
I'm not sure how much can I ask of you :D So there you go. Not insisting on Ctrl-b behavior change.
rlwrap thing not working on Archlinux bash/zsh with or without tmux, I'll provide versions if needed
Most readline shortcuts are not supported by the REPL. The workaround wrapper called rlwrap is not working with
min -i
for some reason (does work for other projects).