Re: Remembering input from my keyboard

[Paul Bonser <misterpib@...>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/23 Mateusz Burzyński <mateuszburzynski@gmail.com>:
>> is it possible in LUA to read and remember input made from my keyboard? I
>> would like to make few commands based upon short keys combinations.
>> if yes, how to do it?
>
> If lua is bound to GNU readline, which it should be if readline exists
> on your system, you can use readline to define macros:
>
> http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html

You can take readline.c from here, compile it to get a readline.so
which you can put in your LUA_CPATH to get access to it. Also, ilua
itself is pretty nice and does things like printing tables' contents,
which is handy when you're testing things from the lua commandline.


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