Hi, so as the new maintainer for the readline egg I wanted to reach out
to the community and see if anybody had any hacks that they'd like to
see included in the egg or if any old maintainers have uncommitted code?
Also if you'd like to see a feature get implemented/added to the egg,
please let me know.
Here's a list of the changes that will most likely be appearing (most of
them are ready to go and will be available in the egg's trunk as soon as
I get my repo creds working) in the next release. If y'all would please
read the changes and provide whatever feedback you feel like giving, I'd
really appreciate it.
Version 2.0 Changes
* module's exports use slightly different names: breaking
compatibility with code relying on the previous release of the egg.
o solution: legacy bindings?
* better paren-bouncing: previous version did it from scratch; version
2.0 uses readline's built-in parenthesis bouncing abilities.
o Works with brackets (i.e. [ ] ) too.
* A bunch of new functions:
o (add-history STRING)
+ does what it sounds like. Adds a string to current
history-list.
o (add-history-time STRING)
+ changes the timestamp associated with the most recent entry
in history-list.
o (history-entry-time OFFSET)
+ returns the timestamp (a c-string) for the entry at the
specified offset in history-list
+ if there isn't a timestamp for the entry at offset or there
isn't an entry there at all, the function returns #f.
o (history-current-entry-line)
+ returns the line (a c-string) for the current entry in
history-list.
o (history-current-entry-time)
+ returns the timestamp for the current entry in history-list.
o (history-goto-entry OFFSET #!optional RELATIVE)
+ returns a list consisting of '(line: STRING index: INTEGER)
+ if #t or an exp evaluating to #t is passed as RELATIVE, then
OFFSET is relative to the /current/ entry in history list.
o (search-history STRING DIRECTION)
+ returns a list consisting of '(offset: OFFSET match: STRING
index: POSITION) on match and #f on fail.
+ if direction is 0+ then it searches through subsequent entries
+ if direction is <0 then it searches through previous entries
o (search-history-backward STRING)
+ binds to (search-history STRING -1)
o (search-history-forward STRING)
+ binds to (search-history STRING 0)
o (history-list-length)
+ returns the length of the history-list
o (history-list)
+ returns the each history-list entry's `line' field as a list
split on the newline.
o (history-position #!optional POSITION)
+ returns the current position in history-list.
+ if POSITION is supplied, then it /sets /the current position
in history-list.
Things I'd like to add sometime in the next release or two
* paren highlighting. The matching paren/brace for the currently
selected one gets highlighted. (Cool, Neato! :D)
o if a paren/brace has no matching paren/brace, then it gets
highlighted a different color.
Thank you for your feedback and merry Christmas!
--
Alexej Magura
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