From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-04-24T07:33:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] HighLine (#29)

Francis Hwang wrote:
> 
> On Apr 22, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Mark Hubbart wrote:
> 
>> On 4/22/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Intra-line editing?
>>> History via (or a la) Readline?
>>> ANSI Colors?
>>
>>
>> Maybe eventually a readline replacement :) no more libreadline required!
> 
> 
> Well, maybe I need to backpedal a bit and say "if people have specific 
> things they'd like me to add that wouldn't require me to drop my other 
> 15 projects, let me know."

Haha... I wasn't really calling your bluff, just dreaming.

> Though the idea of replacing readline is intriguing ... Would the main 
> benefit of that be just getting away from an external lib dependency 
> that could make distribution harder? 

One possible benefit might be easy access to "completion" tricks --
write a completion routine in Ruby and just pass the name of it
or whatever.


Hal