RustyLine

Readline implementation in Rust that is based on Antirez' Linenoise

Supported Platforms

• Unix (tested on FreeBSD, Linux and macOS)
• Windows
  • cmd.exe
  • Powershell

Note:

• Powershell ISE is not supported, check issue #56
• Mintty (Cygwin/Mingw) is not supported

Example

extern crate rustyline;

use rustyline::error::ReadlineError;
use rustyline::Editor;

fn main() {
    // `()` can be used when no completer is required
    let mut rl = Editor::<()>::new();
    if rl.load_history("history.txt").is_err() {
        println!("No previous history.");
    }
    loop {
        let readline = rl.readline(">> ");
        match readline {
            Ok(line) => {
                rl.add_history_entry(line.as_ref());
                println!("Line: {}", line);
            },
            Err(ReadlineError::Interrupted) => {
                println!("CTRL-C");
                break
            },
            Err(ReadlineError::Eof) => {
                println!("CTRL-D");
                break
            },
            Err(err) => {
                println!("Error: {:?}", err);
                break
            }
        }
    }
    rl.save_history("history.txt").unwrap();
}

crates.io

You can use this package in your project by adding the following to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rustyline = "1.0.0"

Features

• Unicode (UTF-8) (linenoise supports only ASCII)
• Word completion (linenoise supports only line completion)
• Filename completion
• History search (Searching for Commands in the History)
• Kill ring (Killing Commands)
• Multi line mode (line wrapping)
• Word commands
• Hints

Actions

For all modes:

Keystroke	Action
Home	Move cursor to the beginning of line
End	Move cursor to end of line
Left	Move cursor one character left
Right	Move cursor one character right
Ctrl-C	Interrupt/Cancel edition
Ctrl-D, Del	(if line is not empty) Delete character under cursor
Ctrl-D	(if line is empty) End of File
Ctrl-J, Ctrl-M, Enter	Finish the line entry
Ctrl-R	Reverse Search history (Ctrl-S forward, Ctrl-G cancel)
Ctrl-T	Transpose previous character with current character
Ctrl-U	Delete from start of line to cursor
Ctrl-V	Insert any special character without perfoming its associated action (#65)
Ctrl-W	Delete word leading up to cursor (using white space as a word boundary)
Ctrl-Y	Paste from Yank buffer
Ctrl-Z	Suspend (unix only)
Ctrl-_	Undo

Emacs mode (default mode)

Keystroke	Action
Ctrl-A, Home	Move cursor to the beginning of line
Ctrl-B, Left	Move cursor one character left
Ctrl-E, End	Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl-F, Right	Move cursor one character right
Ctrl-H, BackSpace	Delete character before cursor
Ctrl-I, Tab	Next completion
Ctrl-K	Delete from cursor to end of line
Ctrl-L	Clear screen
Ctrl-N, Down	Next match from history
Ctrl-P, Up	Previous match from history
Ctrl-X Ctrl-U	Undo
Ctrl-Y	Paste from Yank buffer (Meta-Y to paste next yank instead)
Meta-<	Move to first entry in history
Meta->	Move to last entry in history
Meta-B, Alt-Left	Move cursor to previous word
Meta-C	Capitalize the current word
Meta-D	Delete forwards one word
Meta-F, Alt-Right	Move cursor to next word
Meta-L	Lower-case the next word
Meta-T	Transpose words
Meta-U	Upper-case the next word
Meta-Y	See Ctrl-Y
Meta-BackSpace	Kill from the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the previous word
Meta-0, 1, ..., -	Specify the digit to the argument. – starts a negative argument.

Readline Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet

Vi command mode

Keystroke	Action
$, End	Move cursor to end of line
.	Redo the last text modification
;	Redo the last character finding command
,	Redo the last character finding command in opposite direction
0, Home	Move cursor to the beginning of line
^	Move to the first non-blank character of line
a	Insert after cursor
A	Insert at the end of line
b	Move one word or token left
B	Move one non-blank word left
c	Change text of a movement command
C	Change text to the end of line (equivalent to c$)
d	Delete text of a movement command
D, Ctrl-K	Delete to the end of the line
e	Move to the end of the current word
E	Move to the end of the current non-blank word
f	Move right to the next occurance of char
F	Move left to the previous occurance of char
h, Ctrl-H, BackSpace	Move one character left
l, Space	Move one character right
Ctrl-L	Clear screen
i	Insert before cursor
I	Insert at the beginning of line
+, j, Ctrl-N	Move forward one command in history
-, k, Ctrl-P	Move backward one command in history
p	Insert the yanked text at the cursor (paste)
P	Insert the yanked text before the cursor
r	Replaces a single character under the cursor (without leaving command mode)
s	Delete a single character under the cursor and enter input mode
S	Change current line (equivalent to 0c$)
t	Move right to the next occurance of char, then one char backward
T	Move left to the previous occurance of char, then one char forward
u	Undo
w	Move one word or token right
W	Move one non-blank word right
x	Delete a single character under the cursor
X	Delete a character before the cursor
y	Yank a movement into buffer (copy)

Vi insert mode

Keystroke	Action
Ctrl-H, BackSpace	Delete character before cursor
Ctrl-I, Tab	Next completion
Esc	Switch to command mode

Readline VI Editing Mode Cheat Sheet

Terminal codes (ANSI/VT100)

Wine

$ cargo run --example example --target 'x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
...
Error: Io(Error { repr: Os { code: 6, message: "Invalid handle." } })
$ wineconsole --backend=curses target/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/debug/examples/example.exe
...

Terminal checks

$ # current settings of all terminal attributes:
$ stty -a
$ # key bindings:
$ bind -p

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