ruby--ruby

mirror of https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git synced 2022-11-09 12:17:21 -05:00

History

nobu 3f1f29037d * ext/readline/extconf.rb (have_readline_func): readline on Mac OS X needs headers to detect some functions. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@17541 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e		2008-06-22 05:16:30 +00:00
..
.cvsignore
depend
extconf.rb	* ext/readline/extconf.rb (have_readline_func): readline on Mac OS X	2008-06-22 05:16:30 +00:00
readline.c	* ext/dbm/dbm.c (fdbm_each_value, fdbm_each_key, fdbm_each_pair):	2008-04-21 08:48:33 +00:00
README
README.ja

README

Extension for GNU Readline Library

Example:

  require "readline"
  include Readline

  line = readline("Prompt> ", true)

[Readline]

<module function>

readline(prompt, add_history=nil)

  Reads one line with line editing.  The inputted line is added to the
  history if add_history is true.

<class methods>

completion_proc = proc

  Specifies a Proc object to determine completion behavior.  It
  should take input-string, and return an array of completion
  candidates.

completion_proc

  Returns the completion Proc object.

completion_case_fold = bool

  Sets whether or not to ignore case on completion.

completion_case_fold

  Returns true if completion ignores case.

completion_append_character = char

  Specifies a character to be appended on completion.
  Nothing will be appended if an empty string ("") or nil is
  specified.

completion_append_character

  Returns a string containing a character to be appended on
  completion.  The default is a space (" ").

vi_editing_mode

  Specifies VI editing mode.

emacs_editing_mode

  Specifies Emacs editing mode.

<class constants>

HISTORY

The history buffer.  It behaves just like an array.