On Feb 11, 9:27 pm, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I find consoles, for all "scripting" languages very useful. It's a > really nice way to try out things and test some very specific > behaviors. However I'm getting more and more annoyed by the Rhino > console. The fact that you can't simply go back and forth on the line > you're typing, editing portions or correcting typos, is inconvenient > at best. I'm aware it's a problem with Java (what?! a native console? > how ugly!), that makes these things very awkward, rather than > something that should be laid at Rhino's feet. > > There's a very nice little BSD licensed library, called JLine [1], > that can add "modern" command lines features like line editing, > command history (how useful) and even completion (the cherry on the > cake). I came to a point where I'm more than willing to do the > integration and propose a patch but before I wanted to see if you'd be > willing to add JLine as a dependency. Rhino has very few dependency so > far and it's good to keep it that way, although this one would > probably only be needed when you use the shell. And I could even come > up with a way to make it optional, falling back to using System.in > when JLine is not present. > > Thoughts and opinions? > > Thanks! > Matthieu > > [1]http://jline.sourceforge.net
There's a very handy utility called "rlwrap" which easily gives you all the readline features on any command line app, and it works quite well with Rhino's console. http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/ -Tom _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-rhino mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-rhino
