track history doesn't run?

[solyarisoftware]

track history doesn't run?

[piotrmurach]

Hi Giorgio,

Thanks for using the library! The #ask prompt editing capabilities are in the pipeline but not ready yet. Currently #ask works pretty much like gets call. I have only managed to roll out this feature to #multiline prompt in master. This hasn't been released yet and you can play with it using examples/multiline.rb file.

The Reader#read_line already provides the history navigation and text editing capabilities. However, I need to work more on it to account for line prompts etc... Also to bring many goodies over from Readline Editor it will require more work. I really want the Reader to be capable replacement for Readline and I intend to extract it as a standalone dependency. However, I cannot promise when this is going to be done.

I would encourage you to use tty-prompt with the view that the #ask will have history and editing features added in the near future. There is long outstanding issue about adding #autocomplete prompt which will be possible once I've done the editing bit.

[solyarisoftware]

Thanks Piotr for detailed answer!
So I wait a possible Reader replacement of Readline :-)
regards
giorgio

[piotrmurach]

Hey Giorgio, I've just released v0.12.0 that replaces ask prompt with a new editing and history buffer features. You don't have to specify :track_history option if you want history buffer. Enjoy!

[solyarisoftware]

Great Piotr!
sorry for delay (I'm so busy at work)
Asap I try new ask features and I'll for sure mention your beautiful work as dependency of a shell to interface ChatScript, I'll publish next weeks at www.github.com/solyaris/rChatScript

thanks again
respect
giorgio