There's also the option of using an optional third party library like https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Jakob Eriksson <[email protected]> wrote: > A shotgun approach would be to create a screen editor of sorts, > with a repl in it. That is probably overkill. > > > > On 05/03/16 16:18, Alexander Burger wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > since early versions of PicoLisp I have a problem with the behavior of > > terminals. > > > > It concerns the REPL line editor in debug mode, the way how a backspace > > behaves across a wrapped line. > > > > > > To move backwards in the line, the line editor sends a Ctrl-H to the > > terminal. This happens not only explicitly (e.g. when the user types 'h' > > in vi-mode), but also implicitly when the line is refreshed. > > > > The problem arises when the line gets longer than the number of columns
