Crate rustyline

Readline for Rust

This implementation is based on Antirez’s Linenoise

Example

Usage

let mut rl = rustyline::DefaultEditor::new()?;
let readline = rl.readline(">> ");
match readline {
    Ok(line) => println!("Line: {:?}", line),
    Err(_) => println!("No input"),
}

Re-exports

• pub use crate::config::Behavior;
• pub use crate::config::ColorMode;
• pub use crate::config::CompletionType;
• pub use crate::config::Config;
• pub use crate::config::EditMode;
• pub use crate::config::HistoryDuplicates;

Modules

• completion
  Completion API
• config
  Customize line editor
• error
  Contains error type for handling I/O and Errno errors
• highlight
  Syntax highlighting
• hint
  Hints (suggestions at the right of the prompt as you type).
• history
  History API
• line_buffer
  Line buffer with current cursor position
• validate
  Input validation API (Multi-line editing)

Structs

• Changeset
  Undo manager
• Context
  Completion/suggestion context
• Editor
  Line editor
• EventContext
  Give access to user input.
• KeyEvent
  Input key pressed and modifiers
• Modifiers
  The set of modifier keys that were triggered along with a key press.

Enums

• Anchor
  Where to paste (relative to cursor position)
• At
  Where to move with respect to word boundary
• CharSearch
  character search
• Cmd
  Commands
• Event
  Input event
• EventHandler
  Event handler
• InputMode
  Vi input modes
• KeyCode
  Input key pressed
• Movement
  Where to move
• Word
  Different word definitions

Traits

• ConditionalEventHandler
  May behave differently depending on:
• ExternalPrinter
  External printer
• Helper
  Syntax specific helper.

Type Aliases

• DefaultEditor
  Default editor with no helper and DefaultHistory
• RepeatCount
  The number of times one command should be repeated.
• Result
  The error type for I/O and Linux Syscalls (Errno)