From: greg <eegreg@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T01:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: editing on the command line

I am looking for cross-shell/platform compatibility, but if there is a
way to delegate this task to the shell I would be interested in
knowing anyways.
It seems there are over ten IRC libraries, which one are you referring
too?  I doubt those libraries would be doing anything other than the
standard Readline.readline though.

On Apr 15, 11:15 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 15.04.2007 17:20, greg wrote:
>
> > I want to output some text to the the terminal and allow the user to
> > edit it.  Like the ability you get when using irb and go back in the
> > history.  Basically a readline but the outputted text would be
> > editable instead of a prompt.  I cannot find any way to do this using
> > standard tools or with any libraries.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> If you are on some kind of Unix your favorite shell usually offers this
> service.  IIRC Ruby comes with readline built in, so you might be able
> to use it from a Ruby program.  Does that help?
>
> Kind regards
>
>         robert