Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Per Bothner wrote:
>> I'm inclined to think there is little use for this for Java
>> applications. On Unix-like systems you'd presumably start up
>> your application using a wrapper binary or shell script, so your
>> users don't have to invoke Java manually. And such as wrapper
>> can easily use rlwrap or Kawa's kawa.c wrapper, which avoids
>> the GPL issue, and thus the need for Editline.
>
> In our case, Readline is necessary because the Ruby REPL "IRB" uses
> Readline directly to hook in method completions and other features. So
> having Jline or something similar as part of JRuby is the only way.
Good point - it's more difficult to handle tab-completion
when using a front-end.
However, it should be doable when using sockets, like Kawa does:
A tab calls the readline completer hook, which sends a message
to the backend, which sends back candidate completions.
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