Re: Advanced readline support patch added to Wiki

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

I wrote a readline-lite in (somewhat) pure lua (4.0.1). I'll try to
dig it up. I cheated a bit though to put the terminal into raw mode by
calling stty. Anyone want to make it pretty?

-joe

On Fri, 28 May 2004 13:54:58 +0200, Mike Pall <mikelu-0405@mike.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Is there a compatible library I can link it against for windows?
> 
> Well, the cygwin framework has support for readline. But unless I'm
> mistaken it is not sufficient to just download a single dll and be happy.
> You probably need to install most of the core parts, too.
> 
> I don't have a Windows box, so I cannot comment on this. So please have
> a look at: http://www.cygwin.com/
> 
> If you come up with any results, please report to the list with your
> experiences. Thank you!
> 
> BTW: I think the truly portable solution would be to rewrite readline
>     in pure Lua, using ANSI escape sequences (the Windows terminal is
>     ANSI compatible). Interactive mode is not performance critical anyway.
>     But since the readline functionality is not trivial, this would
>     be quite an undertaking.
> 
> Bye,
>     Mike
>