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| author | antirez <antirez@gmail.com> | 2014-10-06 09:49:44 +0200 |
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| committer | antirez <antirez@gmail.com> | 2014-10-06 09:49:44 +0200 |
| commit | e4b0c8ec50f2248286b770a655ea85d5cfcc79f4 (patch) | |
| tree | d19e7ea57ea3b14901ac752f5a4c695ceb07a316 | |
| parent | 3c6f9ac37c849c82aebf5b45e895faa6cc80e7be (diff) | |
| download | redis-e4b0c8ec50f2248286b770a655ea85d5cfcc79f4.tar.gz | |
Linenoise README updated to match source code.
| -rw-r--r-- | deps/linenoise/README.markdown | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/deps/linenoise/README.markdown b/deps/linenoise/README.markdown index 2d21dc4e2..c845673cd 100644 --- a/deps/linenoise/README.markdown +++ b/deps/linenoise/README.markdown @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ MongoDB, and Android. * History handling. * Completion. * About 1,100 lines of BSD license source code. +* Only uses a subset of VT100 escapes (ANSI.SYS compatible). ## Can a line editing library be 20k lines of code? @@ -23,9 +24,8 @@ So I spent more or less two hours doing a reality check resulting in this little ## Terminals, in 2010. -Apparently almost every terminal you can happen to use today has some kind of support for VT100 alike escape sequences. So I tried to write a lib using just very basic VT100 features. The resulting library appears to work everywhere I tried to use it. - -Since it's so young I guess there are a few bugs, or the lib may not compile or work with some operating system, but it's a matter of a few weeks and eventually we'll get it right, and there will be no excuses for not shipping command line tools without built-in line editing support. +Apparently almost every terminal you can happen to use today has some kind of support for basic VT100 escape sequences. So I tried to write a lib using just very basic VT100 features. The resulting library appears to work everywhere I tried to use it, and now can work even on ANSI.SYS compatible terminals, since no +VT220 specific sequences are used anymore. The library is currently about 1100 lines of code. In order to use it in your project just look at the *example.c* file in the source distribution, it is trivial. Linenoise is BSD code, so you can use both in free software and commercial software. @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ The library is currently about 1100 lines of code. In order to use it in your pr * OpenBSD 4.5 through an OSX Terminal.app ($TERM = screen) * IBM AIX 6.1 * FreeBSD xterm ($TERM = xterm) + * ANSI.SYS Please test it everywhere you can and report back! |