Linenoise updated again (hints support).

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@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ MongoDB, and Android.
* Single and multi line editing mode with the usual key bindings implemented.
* History handling.
* Completion.
* Hints (suggestions at the right of the prompt as you type).
* About 1,100 lines of BSD license source code.
* Only uses a subset of VT100 escapes (ANSI.SYS compatible).
@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ So what usually happens is either:
The result is a pollution of binaries without line editing support.
So I spent more or less two hours doing a reality check resulting in this little library: is it *really* needed for a line editing library to be 20k lines of code? Apparently not, it is possibe to get a very small, zero configuration, trivial to embed library, that solves the problem. Smaller programs will just include this, supporing line editing out of the box. Larger programs may use this little library or just checking with configure if readline/libedit is available and resorting to linenoise if not.
So I spent more or less two hours doing a reality check resulting in this little library: is it *really* needed for a line editing library to be 20k lines of code? Apparently not, it is possibe to get a very small, zero configuration, trivial to embed library, that solves the problem. Smaller programs will just include this, supporing line editing out of the box. Larger programs may use this little library or just checking with configure if readline/libedit is available and resorting to Linenoise if not.
## Terminals, in 2010.
@ -41,12 +42,183 @@ The library is currently about 1100 lines of code. In order to use it in your pr
* IBM AIX 6.1
* FreeBSD xterm ($TERM = xterm)
* ANSI.SYS
* Emacs comint mode ($TERM = dumb)
Please test it everywhere you can and report back!
## Let's push this forward!
Patches should be provided in the respect of linenoise sensibility for small
Patches should be provided in the respect of Linenoise sensibility for small
easy to understand code.
Send feedbacks to antirez at gmail
# The API
Linenoise is very easy to use, and reading the example shipped with the
library should get you up to speed ASAP. Here is a list of API calls
and how to use them.
char *linenoise(const char *prompt);
This is the main Linenoise call: it shows the user a prompt with line editing
and history capabilities. The prompt you specify is used as a prompt, that is,
it will be printed to the left of the cursor. The library returns a buffer
with the line composed by the user, or NULL on end of file or when there
is an out of memory condition.
When a tty is detected (the user is actually typing into a terminal session)
the maximum editable line length is `LINENOISE_MAX_LINE`. When instead the
standard input is not a tty, which happens every time you redirect a file
to a program, or use it in an Unix pipeline, there are no limits to the
length of the line that can be returned.
The returned line should be freed with the `free()` standard system call.
However sometimes it could happen that your program uses a different dynamic
allocation library, so you may also used `linenoiseFree` to make sure the
line is freed with the same allocator it was created.
The canonical loop used by a program using Linenoise will be something like
this:
while((line = linenoise("hello> ")) != NULL) {
printf("You wrote: %s\n", line);
linenoiseFree(line); /* Or just free(line) if you use libc malloc. */
}
## Single line VS multi line editing
By default, Linenoise uses single line editing, that is, a single row on the
screen will be used, and as the user types more, the text will scroll towards
left to make room. This works if your program is one where the user is
unlikely to write a lot of text, otherwise multi line editing, where multiple
screens rows are used, can be a lot more comfortable.
In order to enable multi line editing use the following API call:
linenoiseSetMultiLine(1);
You can disable it using `0` as argument.
## History
Linenoise supporst history, so that the user does not have to retype
again and again the same things, but can use the down and up arrows in order
to search and re-edit already inserted lines of text.
The followings are the history API calls:
int linenoiseHistoryAdd(const char *line);
int linenoiseHistorySetMaxLen(int len);
int linenoiseHistorySave(const char *filename);
int linenoiseHistoryLoad(const char *filename);
Use `linenoiseHistoryAdd` every time you want to add a new element
to the top of the history (it will be the first the user will see when
using the up arrow).
Note that for history to work, you have to set a length for the history
(which is zero by default, so history will be disabled if you don't set
a proper one). This is accomplished using the `linenoiseHistorySetMaxLen`
function.
Linenoise has direct support for persisting the history into an history
file. The functions `linenoiseHistorySave` and `linenoiseHistoryLoad` do
just that. Both functions return -1 on error and 0 on success.
## Completion
Linenoise supports completion, which is the ability to complete the user
input when she or he presses the `<TAB>` key.
In order to use completion, you need to register a completion callback, which
is called every time the user presses `<TAB>`. Your callback will return a
list of items that are completions for the current string.
The following is an example of registering a completion callback:
linenoiseSetCompletionCallback(completion);
The completion must be a function returning `void` and getting as input
a `const char` pointer, which is the line the user has typed so far, and
a `linenoiseCompletions` object pointer, which is used as argument of
`linenoiseAddCompletion` in order to add completions inside the callback.
An example will make it more clear:
void completion(const char *buf, linenoiseCompletions *lc) {
if (buf[0] == 'h') {
linenoiseAddCompletion(lc,"hello");
linenoiseAddCompletion(lc,"hello there");
}
}
Basically in your completion callback, you inspect the input, and return
a list of items that are good completions by using `linenoiseAddCompletion`.
If you want to test the completion feature, compile the example program
with `make`, run it, type `h` and press `<TAB>`.
## Hints
Linenoise has a feature called *hints* which is very useful when you
use Linenoise in order to implement a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) for
a program that accepts commands and arguments, but may also be useful in
other conditions.
The feature shows, on the right of the cursor, as the user types, hints that
may be useful. The hints can be displayed using a different color compared
to the color the user is typing, and can also be bold.
For example as the user starts to type `"git remote add"`, with hints it's
possible to show on the right of the prompt a string `<name> <url>`.
The feature works similarly to the history feature, using a callback.
To register the callback we use:
linenoiseSetHintsCallback(hints);
The callback itself is implemented like this:
char *hints(const char *buf, int *color, int *bold) {
if (!strcasecmp(buf,"git remote add")) {
*color = 35;
*bold = 0;
return " <name> <url>";
}
return NULL;
}
The callback function returns the string that should be displayed or NULL
if no hint is available for the text the user currently typed. The returned
string will be trimmed as needed depending on the number of columns available
on the screen.
It is possible to return a string allocated in dynamic way, by also registering
a function to deallocate the hint string once used:
void linenoiseSetFreeHintsCallback(linenoiseFreeHintsCallback *);
The free hint callback will just receive the pointer and free the string
as needed (depending on how the hits callback allocated it).
As you can see in the example above, a `color` (in xterm color terminal codes)
can be provided together with a `bold` attribute. If no color is set, the
current terminal foreground color is used. If no bold attribute is set,
non-bold text is printed.
Color codes are:
red = 31
green = 32
yellow = 33
blue = 34
magenta = 35
cyan = 36
white = 37;
## Screen handling
Sometimes you may want to clear the screen as a result of something the
user typed. You can do this by calling the following function:
void linenoiseClearScreen(void);

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@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ void completion(const char *buf, linenoiseCompletions *lc) {
}
}
char *hints(const char *buf, int *color, int *bold) {
if (!strcasecmp(buf,"hello")) {
*color = 35;
*bold = 0;
return " World";
}
return NULL;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
char *line;
char *prgname = argv[0];
@ -34,6 +43,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
/* Set the completion callback. This will be called every time the
* user uses the <tab> key. */
linenoiseSetCompletionCallback(completion);
linenoiseSetHintsCallback(hints);
/* Load history from file. The history file is just a plain text file
* where entries are separated by newlines. */

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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
*
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez at gmail dot com>
* Copyright (c) 2010-2016, Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez at gmail dot com>
* Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Pieter Noordhuis <pcnoordhuis at gmail dot com>
*
* All rights reserved.
@ -120,6 +120,8 @@
#define LINENOISE_MAX_LINE 4096
static char *unsupported_term[] = {"dumb","cons25","emacs",NULL};
static linenoiseCompletionCallback *completionCallback = NULL;
static linenoiseHintsCallback *hintsCallback = NULL;
static linenoiseFreeHintsCallback *freeHintsCallback = NULL;
static struct termios orig_termios; /* In order to restore at exit.*/
static int rawmode = 0; /* For atexit() function to check if restore is needed*/
@ -407,6 +409,18 @@ void linenoiseSetCompletionCallback(linenoiseCompletionCallback *fn) {
completionCallback = fn;
}
/* Register a hits function to be called to show hits to the user at the
* right of the prompt. */
void linenoiseSetHintsCallback(linenoiseHintsCallback *fn) {
hintsCallback = fn;
}
/* Register a function to free the hints returned by the hints callback
* registered with linenoiseSetHintsCallback(). */
void linenoiseSetFreeHintsCallback(linenoiseFreeHintsCallback *fn) {
freeHintsCallback = fn;
}
/* This function is used by the callback function registered by the user
* in order to add completion options given the input string when the
* user typed <tab>. See the example.c source code for a very easy to
@ -456,6 +470,30 @@ static void abFree(struct abuf *ab) {
free(ab->b);
}
/* Helper of refreshSingleLine() and refreshMultiLine() to show hints
* to the right of the prompt. */
void refreshShowHints(struct abuf *ab, struct linenoiseState *l, int plen) {
char seq[64];
if (hintsCallback && plen+l->len < l->cols) {
int color = -1, bold = 0;
char *hint = hintsCallback(l->buf,&color,&bold);
if (hint) {
int hintlen = strlen(hint);
int hintmaxlen = l->cols-(plen+l->len);
if (hintlen > hintmaxlen) hintlen = hintmaxlen;
if (bold == 1 && color == -1) color = 37;
if (color != -1 || bold != 0)
snprintf(seq,64,"\033[%d;%d;49m",bold,color);
abAppend(ab,seq,strlen(seq));
abAppend(ab,hint,hintlen);
if (color != -1 || bold != 0)
abAppend(ab,"\033[0m",4);
/* Call the function to free the hint returned. */
if (freeHintsCallback) freeHintsCallback(hint);
}
}
}
/* Single line low level line refresh.
*
* Rewrite the currently edited line accordingly to the buffer content,
@ -485,6 +523,8 @@ static void refreshSingleLine(struct linenoiseState *l) {
/* Write the prompt and the current buffer content */
abAppend(&ab,l->prompt,strlen(l->prompt));
abAppend(&ab,buf,len);
/* Show hits if any. */
refreshShowHints(&ab,l,plen);
/* Erase to right */
snprintf(seq,64,"\x1b[0K");
abAppend(&ab,seq,strlen(seq));
@ -538,6 +578,9 @@ static void refreshMultiLine(struct linenoiseState *l) {
abAppend(&ab,l->prompt,strlen(l->prompt));
abAppend(&ab,l->buf,l->len);
/* Show hits if any. */
refreshShowHints(&ab,l,plen);
/* If we are at the very end of the screen with our prompt, we need to
* emit a newline and move the prompt to the first column. */
if (l->pos &&
@ -598,7 +641,7 @@ int linenoiseEditInsert(struct linenoiseState *l, char c) {
l->pos++;
l->len++;
l->buf[l->len] = '\0';
if ((!mlmode && l->plen+l->len < l->cols) /* || mlmode */) {
if ((!mlmode && l->plen+l->len < l->cols && !hintsCallback)) {
/* Avoid a full update of the line in the
* trivial case. */
if (write(l->ofd,&c,1) == -1) return -1;
@ -1010,6 +1053,14 @@ char *linenoise(const char *prompt) {
}
}
/* This is just a wrapper the user may want to call in order to make sure
* the linenoise returned buffer is freed with the same allocator it was
* created with. Useful when the main program is using an alternative
* allocator. */
void linenoiseFree(void *ptr) {
free(ptr);
}
/* ================================ History ================================= */
/* Free the history, but does not reset it. Only used when we have to

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@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
/* linenoise.h -- guerrilla line editing library against the idea that a
* line editing lib needs to be 20,000 lines of C code.
/* linenoise.h -- VERSION 1.0
*
* Guerrilla line editing library against the idea that a line editing lib
* needs to be 20,000 lines of C code.
*
* See linenoise.c for more information.
*
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Copyright (c) 2010, Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez at gmail dot com>
* Copyright (c) 2010, Pieter Noordhuis <pcnoordhuis at gmail dot com>
* Copyright (c) 2010-2014, Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez at gmail dot com>
* Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Pieter Noordhuis <pcnoordhuis at gmail dot com>
*
* All rights reserved.
*
@ -47,10 +49,15 @@ typedef struct linenoiseCompletions {
} linenoiseCompletions;
typedef void(linenoiseCompletionCallback)(const char *, linenoiseCompletions *);
typedef char*(linenoiseHintsCallback)(const char *, int *color, int *bold);
typedef char*(linenoiseFreeHintsCallback)(char *);
void linenoiseSetCompletionCallback(linenoiseCompletionCallback *);
void linenoiseSetHintsCallback(linenoiseHintsCallback *);
void linenoiseSetFreeHintsCallback(linenoiseFreeHintsCallback *);
void linenoiseAddCompletion(linenoiseCompletions *, const char *);
char *linenoise(const char *prompt);
void linenoiseFree(void *ptr);
int linenoiseHistoryAdd(const char *line);
int linenoiseHistorySetMaxLen(int len);
int linenoiseHistorySave(const char *filename);