replxx for Mac

Read Evaluate Print Loop ++

A small, portable GNU readline replacement for Linux, Windows and MacOS which is capable of handling UTF-8 characters. Unlike GNU readline, which is GPL, this library uses a BSD license and can be used in any kind of program.

Origin

This replxx implementation is based on the work by ArangoDB Team and Salvatore Sanfilippo and 10gen Inc. The goal is to create a zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement usable in Apache2 or BSD licensed programs.

Features

single-line and multi-line editing mode with the usual key bindings implemented history handling completion syntax highlighting hints BSD license source code Only uses a subset of VT100 escapes (ANSI.SYS compatible) UTF8 aware support for Linux, MacOS and Windows

Requirements

To build this library, you will need a C++11-enabled compiler and some recent version of CMake.

Build instructions

nix Create a build directory Build the library Install the library at the default target location

The default installation location can be adjusted by setting the DESTDIR variable when invoking make install:

Windows Create a build directory in MS-DOS command prompt Generate Visual Studio solution file with cmake

32 bit:

64 bit: Open the generated file replxx.sln in the build subdirectory with Visual Studio.

Tested with...

Linux text only console ($TERM = linux) Linux KDE terminal application ($TERM = xterm) Linux xterm ($TERM = xterm) Linux Buildroot ($TERM = vt100) Mac OS X iTerm ($TERM = xterm) Mac OS X default Terminal.app ($TERM = xterm) OpenBSD 4.5 through an OSX Terminal.app ($TERM = screen) IBM AIX 6.1 FreeBSD xterm ($TERM = xterm) ANSI.SYS Emacs comint mode ($TERM = dumb) Windows

Please test it everywhere you can and report back!