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  2. Readline
  3. Interface
    1. Toplevel Commands
      1. ,!!
      2. ,h-clear
      3. ,h-save
      4. ,h-rec
      5. ,h-load
      6. ,vi-mode
      7. ,emacs-mode
    2. Variables
      1. version
      2. session
        1. load-history-file
        2. save-history-on-exit
        3. record-history
        4. verify-history-expansions
    3. Functions
      1. use-legacy-bindings
      2. readline
      3. %signal-cleanup
      4. clear-history
      5. read-history
      6. write-history
      7. append-history
      8. history-newlines
      9. truncate-history
      10. install-history-file
      11. make-readline-port
      12. set-bounce-ms
      13. parse-and-bind
      14. history-list
      15. history-position
      16. add-history
      17. remove-history
      18. eval-last-history-line
  4. Building
    1. Examples
  5. Installation problems
    1. Mac OS X
      1. 10.8/10.9 (Snow Leopard/Mavericks)
      2. 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
      3. Pre-10.6
    2. Debian GNU/Linux and derivatives (such as Ubuntu)
  6. About this egg
    1. Author
    2. Version history
    3. License

Readline

An interface to the GNU readline library

Interface

Toplevel Commands

,!!

Evaluates the previous command.

This command is never added to the history list, sorry: it broke the Matrix.

(j/k It caused an infinite loop when entered twice in a row, so I just made it so that the previous command can never be ,!!).

,h-clear

Clears the current session's history list.

,h-save

Enable/disable saving session history on exit

It is enabled by default.

,h-rec

Enable/disable recording history for the current session

It's enabled by default.

,h-load

Read file contents into the history list for the current session.

Currently, there might be a bug (I haven't checked) where the file's name has an extra space added to it unless you enter it on a separate line:

,h-load
~/.csi_hist

,vi-mode

Sets the current editing mode to Vi.

The equivalent function call would be:

(readline#parse-and-bind "set editing-mode vi")

,emacs-mode

Sets the current editing mode to Emacs

Variables

version

[type] string

The current version string.

session

[type] kvlist

A Key-value list of settings that affect how some of the egg's functions behave for the current session.

load-history-file
[type] boolean

Used by install-history-file. Set to #t by default; when set to #f, the history file will NOT be loaded at start-up.

save-history-on-exit
[type] boolean

Used by install-history-file. Set to #t by default; when set to #f, the current session's history will NOT be saved to the history file on exit.

record-history
[type] boolean

Used by ,rl-rec. Set to #t by default; when set to #f it disables recording history for the current session.

verify-history-expansions
[type] boolean

Settings this to true makes ,rl-!! wait for you to press enter instead of inserting EOL automatically.

Functions

use-legacy-bindings

[procedure] (use-legacy-bindings)

Exports symbols aliasing the v1.993 API to the current API.

Use this function only if you have legacy code that uses the older API.

Returns (void) on success; will cause an error on fail.

Example:
(readline#use-legacy-bindings)
(current-input-port (make-gnu-readline-port))

readline

[procedure] (readline prompt1 [prompt2] )

Reads a line using the GNU readline() function and returns a string.

Both arguments must be strings; prompt2 is optional.

%signal-cleanup

[procedure] (%signal-cleanup)

Sets the state of the underlying readline environment to a clean slate.

NOTE Calls free(); so using this more than once consecutively may result in undefined behavior, as in a segfault.

clear-history

[procedure] (clear-history)

Clears the history buffer.

read-history

[procedure] (read-history [file])

Reads contents of the provided file into the history buffer.

When called without file-name, reads from ~/.history. Returns 0 on success, or errno on fail.

write-history

[procedure] (write-history [file])

Writes the history buffer to file or ~/.history when no file is provided.

Returns 0 on success; errno on fail.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Using this may clobber simultaneous sessions.

append-history

[procedure] (append-history [file])

Appends history buffer from the current session to file.

Returns 0 on success; errno on fail.

history-newlines

[procedure] (history-newlines)

Returns the number of entries from the current session.

truncate-history

[procedure] (truncate-history [file] [n])

Truncates provided history file to a maximum of n lines.

Returns 0 on win; errno on fail.

install-history-file

[procedure] (install-history-file [homedir] [filename] [nlines])

If you also want to make the command history span sessions, add the following to your ~/.csirc:

(install-history-file)

By default this will save 1000 lines of history between sessions (it will prune the history file to 1000 lines at startup). For a different history size, pass the desired number of lines as the (optional) second argument to history-install-file-manager. If #f or no second argument is passed in, no history-file-pruning will take place.

NOTE Do not use this in conjunction with rlwrap. The maintainer did so and experience some very weird behavior from csi.

make-readline-port

[procedure] (make-readline-port [prompt] [prompt2])

Returns an input-port that uses the GNU readline facility. If PROMPT is not given, the value returned by (repl-prompt) is used for generating the current prompt (see the Chicken manual for more details about repl-prompt). PROMPT2 is used when there are still unclosed parenthesis; if not given, an appropriate default is generated.

set-bounce-ms

[procedure] (set-bounce-ms ms)

Changes the time that the cursor spends bouncing on the matching parenthesis - the default 500ms. To turn bouncing off completely, set it to 0.

parse-and-bind

[procedure] (parse-and-bind string)

Passes string straight to the readline library for parsing (see the readline manual page for details).

history-list

[procedure] (history-list)

Returns the history list as a newline separated list.

history-position

[procedure] (history-position [pos])

Returns the current offset within the history list.

Passing pos sets the current offset.

add-history

[procedure] (%history-add% string)

Adds string to the history list.

NOTE

This function exists primarily for testing purposes.

Returns void

remove-history

[procedure] (%remove-history% offset)

Removes and frees the specified history entry and its associated memory.

eval-last-history-line

[procedure] (eval-last-history-line [script])

The function behind ,rl-!!.

This function is not added to the history unless script is true. DO NOT pass script as true, unless you know what you are doing: it makes it possible to accidentally cause an infinite loop if the previous command was also eval-last-history-line #t!!

NOTE

The line does not have to be from the current session. Also, I don't know what happens when there isn't said line, but I reckon it'd cause a segfault; I'll see about fixing that in the 3.1 release.

Building

This extension supports static linking.

Examples

% csi -quiet
#;1> (use readline)
#;2> (current-input-port (make-readline-port))
#;3>

To get csi to use readline by default, and to keep a history, use the following (in your ~/.csirc file):

(use readline)
(current-input-port (make-readline-port))
(install-history-file #f "/.csi.history")

To set readline to behave somewhat like vi:

(parse-and-bind "set editing-mode vi")

Installation problems

This extension requires GNU readline. You will receive errors if you don't have the C header files for your readline installation or if you use some versions of the BSD readline alternative, libedit.

Mac OS X

10.8/10.9 (Snow Leopard/Mavericks)

Using bash...

brew install readline
readline_version=$(brew list readline --versions)
readline_version=${readline_version##* }
export CSC_OPTIONS="-I/usr/local/Cellar/readline/$readline_version/include -L/usr/local/Cellar/readline/$readline_version/lib -Wl,-flat_namespace,-undefined,suppress"
unset readline_version
brew reinstall chicken
chicken-install readline

10.6 (Snow Leopard)

10.6 ships with a much older version of readline than this egg expects. Fortunately, recent versions of readline in MacPorts work. readline @6.0.000_2+darwin is confirmed to work with 10.6.2. First install the readline package from MacPorts and then do this:

export CSC_OPTIONS="-I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib"

...before the chicken-install. If this doesn't work, try an additional

export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib

Pre-10.6

Mac OS X versions prior to 10.5 (Leopard) ship with an older readline, causing the following error when you install this egg:

/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_history_truncate_file

To fix this, install a copy of GNU readline in /usr/local/lib or, if you're using MacPorts, symlink it:

ln -s /opt/local/lib/libreadline.dylib /usr/local/lib

DO NOT modify the readline link in /usr/lib.

Debian GNU/Linux and derivatives (such as Ubuntu)

In the case of Debian, you should probably install the package libreadline-dev, which is not installed by default.

About this egg

Author

Tony Garnock-Jones

Maintained by Alexej Magura

Version history

4.1.1
Slight changes to the toplevel commands interface.
4.1.0
Necessary updates in light of the changes in Chicken v4.10 as compared to Chicken v4.9.
4.0.0
Version bump due to v3.0b2 being considered newer than v3.1.1.
3.1.1
Removes `regex` as a dependency (patch).
3.1
Removes `current-history-line' and renames all of the history related functions.
3.0
Removes a lot of the stuff introduced by 2.0; adds toplevel-commands for convience.
3.0b2
Fixed memleaks in history-list function and str_unquotd
3.0b1
Made a few tweaks to the API to keep it in sync with the documentation I've written.
3.0b
Lots of API additions and a few changes; more efficient memory usage; removed libbsd as an optional depend
2.4
Fixed setup file and version string.
2.3
Reverted back to v1.993 setup file due to that fixes a bug with automated builds; added checks for libbsd
2.2
Fixed more bugs with the detection of unclosed expressions
2.1
Fixed a bug with legacy support where the aliases pointed to uninterned symbols.
2.0
Fixed a bug with the unclosed-exp-prompt, where "<NEWLINE> did not count as an unclosed expression. Added more history functions and other cool stuff (see soon-to-appear changelog for details)
1.993
fixed buggy build bugs caused by repeated build "fixes" (Jim Ursetto)
1.992
fixed buggy fixes made by felix (thanks to ewfalor)
1.991
fixed buggy setup script (thanks to ewfalor)
1.99
Ported to Chicken 4
1.97
Fixed an old typo that could conceivably cause errors [elf]
1.96
Fixed build process for real this time (ensuring tests for lib availability actually do set, etc.) [elf]
1.95
Fixed build process [elf]
1.94
Added backtraces to control-c breaks [elf]
1.93
Fixed history so that multiple sessions dont clobber each other. [elf]
1.92
Added proper signal handling [elf]
1.91
Added support for static linking [felix]
1.9
Ignores duplicate history entries [Thanks to Toby Butzon]
1.8
Empty lines are not added to history [Thanks to Dan Muresan]
1.7
Added parenthesis bouncing, a new auto-complete [Heath Johns]
1.6
Export *completion-entry-function* to support autocomplete [Alejandro Forero Cuervo]
1.5
prompt argument to make-gnu-readline-port is optional [felix]
1.4
Replaced use of (end-of-file) with #!eof
1.3
Checks more possible libraries to link with at build time [Thanks to Peter Bex]
1.2
Adapted to new setup scheme.
1.1
More features, changed license to GPL, links with either libtermcap or libncurses.
1.0
Initial release

License

Copyright (c) 2002 Tony Garnock-Jones
Copyright (c) 2006 Heath Johns (paren bouncing and auto-completion code)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA