TODO.md

API

• expose an API callable from C

Async (#126)

Bell

• bell-style

Color

• ANSI Colors & Windows 10+
• ANSI Colors & Windows <10 (https://docs.rs/console/0.6.1/console/fn.strip_ansi_codes.html ? https://github.com/mattn/go-colorable/blob/master/colorable_windows.go, https://github.com/mattn/ansicolor-w32.c)
• Syntax highlighting (https://github.com/trishume/syntect/)
• clicolors spec (https://docs.rs/console/0.6.1/console/fn.colors_enabled.html)

Completion

• Quoted path
• Windows escape/unescape space in path
• file completion & escape/unescape (#106)
• file completion & tilde (#62)
• display versus replacement
• composite/alternate completer (if the current completer returns nothing, try the next one)

Config

• Maximum buffer size for the line read

Cursor

• insert versus overwrite versus command mode
• In vi command mode, prevent user from going to end of line. (#94)

Grapheme

• grapheme & input auto-wrap are buggy

Hints Callback

• Not implemented on Windows
• Do an implementation based on previous history

History

• Move to the history line n
• historyFile: Where to read/write the history at the start and end of each line input session.
• append_history
• history_truncate_file
• custom persistent storage

Input

• Password input (#58) (https://github.com/conradkdotcom/rpassword) (antirez/linenoise#125)
• quoted insert (#65)
• Overwrite mode (em-toggle-overwrite, vi-replace-mode, rl_insert_mode)
• Encoding
• [Ctrl-][Alt-][Shift-] (#121)

Layout

• Redraw perf (https://crates.io/crates/cassowary)

Misc

• fallible iterator (https://docs.rs/fallible-iterator/0.2.1/fallible_iterator/)

Mouse

• Mouse support

Movement

• Move to the corresponding opening/closing bracket

Redo

• redo substitute

Repeat

• dynamic prompt (arg: ?)
• transpose chars

Syntax

• syntax specific tokenizer/parser
• highlighting

Undo

• Merge consecutive Replace
• Undo group
• Undo all changes made to this line.
• Kill+Insert (substitute/replace)
• Repeated undo Undo(RepeatCount)

Unix

• Terminfo (https://github.com/Stebalien/term)
• ncurses alternative backend ?
• bracketed paste mode
• async stdin (https://github.com/Rufflewind/tokio-file-unix)

Windows

• is_atty is not working with Cygwin/MSYS (https://github.com/softprops/atty works but then how to make enable_raw_mode works ?) (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/console/blob/master/src/windows_term.rs#L285) (https://github.com/mattn/go-isatty/blob/master/isatty_windows.go, https://github.com/mattn/go-tty/blob/master/tty_windows.go#L143)
• UTF-16 surrogate pair
• handle ANSI escape code (#61) (https://github.com/DanielKeep/rust-ansi-interpreter)