On Saturday, 25 February 2023 at 08:47:42 UTC, Richard (Rikki)
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
On 25/02/2023 9:45 PM, Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
I went with readline. Left/right arrows work, but up arrow
still does not recall earlier commands. Maybe I need also a
separate input history thing?
https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#Basic-Behavior
Hmm... the add_history(), or maybe it's rl_add_history(),
function seems to have been in ancient readline versions but at
some point all line history code was taken out to be its own
library.
https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/history.html
Arch Linux drags in both readline.so and history.so in its
readline package. No one notices!
Trying import gnu.history; fails since there's no distinct
'history' package (yet) and Dub doesn't drag it in along with
readline.
D can call C and link to anything in /usr/lib easily. Done. It
works! How does D know to link to the libhistory.so library? I
didn't say "history" anywhere. But it works.
extern (C) {
void add_history(const char*);
}
I'm tempted to make a history package and submit it to DUB.
Maybe. After dinner...
