On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:01:01AM -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: > i like text irc clients. i like libreadline (for the vi bindings, of > course). is there any way to mix the two? > > i dug a little around the irssi source (my current client), and > concluded that its event handling system is too complex for a > readline(NULL) plug. (if you think otherwise, please speak up) > > i googled and google-grouped, i searched the portage tree for irc > clients, but i don't see anything that seems to use libreadline
well, i really doubt that this will work with something curses-y and as complex as an irc client (assuming that irssi looks something like ircii/epic/bitchX), but what i've done in the past is used a program like rlwrap (http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/) to give me readline on stuff like an ancient lisp interpreter and a telnet session to older cisco equiptment that didn't offer command line editing the way i liked it. granted i only use the emacs bindings (which is weird because i only use vi to edit) but i assume that they wouldn't bother to do it halfassed and only support the emacs bindings. there's another one out there (name starts with an s) that i've actually used but i can't seem to find it anymore. rlwrap looks equivalent. let me know if you can't find the other one and i can dig it out of an old news post i recall making. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
