[Toybox] linenoise

[Rob Landley]

On 12/05/2011 07:41 AM, Jens Staal wrote:
> Would this be interesting for some toybox utilities?
> 
> https://github.com/antirez/linenoise

As an external dependency, no.  As a single file I can suck into the
build and use internally (the way dropbear contains libtomcrypt), maybe?
 I haven't read the code yet, but the general idea looks reasonable.

I probably won't tackle "the shell" until after the new year, although
line editing also comes up when implementing a text editor and "less"
and a few other places.  I note that I had to extensively debug the
busybox line editing capability to make it be not crap, big long thread
starts here:

  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2008-October/067348.html

Does linenoise get that part right?

Speaking of which, I should probably bookmark my notes here:

  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2009-May/069314.html

Rob

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