lulz, you're the first person to reply to this thread. :)
I'll see about implementing a reasonable solution.
On 01/25/2015 08:33 AM, m...@kiatoa.com wrote:
Hi Alexej,
As a daily user of csi with readline I look forward to using your
enhancements. If it makes sense to do I would like to see the
behavior change for a new install, currently the user has to touch the
~/.csi-history (?) file before history will be kept. I'd like it if
that became unnecessary.
Thanks
Matt
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-------- Original Message --------
From: Alexej Magura <agm2...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 04:00 AM
To: chicken-users@nongnu.org
Subject: [Chicken-users] readline egg v2.0 feedback
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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