[fpc-pascal] Readline substitute

[Krishna]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Johann Glaser <Johann.Glaser at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to equip a program with a command line and therefore want a
> powerful and user-friendly input prompt. Currently I use
>  ReadLn(CmdLine);
> which is not as user-friendly as desired. :-)
>
> The usual answer for this question is libreadline. I already worked with
> it (in plain C) but before I do a header translation for FreePascal I
> wanted to ask you for your opinion if there is a better alternative or
> anybody already has a header translation or even programmer-friendly
> wrapper for the history and auto-completion stuff.

linenoise[1] and editline[2] are alternatives. Don't know if there are
pascal bindings to those.

[1]: https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
[2]: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/


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