sd-rust/rustyline

Readline Implementation in Rust

RustyLine

Readline implementation in Rust that is based on Antirez' Linenoise

Documentation

Build

This project uses Cargo and Rust Nightly

cargo build --release

Example

extern crate rustyline;

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

fn main() {
    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 = "0.2.3"

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

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-J, Return	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 (Alt-Y to paste next yank instead)
Tab	Next completion
Alt-B, Alt-Left	Move cursor to previous word
Alt-C	Capitalize the current word
Alt-D	Delete forwards one word
Alt-F, Alt-Right	Move cursor to next word
Alt-L	Lower-case the next word
Alt-T	Transpose words
Alt-U	Upper-case the next word
Alt-Y	See Ctrl-Y
Alt-BackSpace	Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the previous word

ToDo

• Show completion list
• expose an API callable from C