Re: readline from lua?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Frank Meier-Dörnberg <frank@md-web.de> wrote:
> Probably not what you are looking for but a working sample:
> Lua for Windows have exhausting set of examples.

Dirk is looking for a binding to the readline library, which makes
life for POSIX command-line programs so much easier.

The _basics_ are very easy (there's one in the ILua repo) but one can
do so much better:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/CompleteWithReadline

See towards the end where someone has made this idea into a loadable C module.

(I did this once but I think I lost it)

steve d.