Re: Maiybe a little feature request: readline support in debug.debug()

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• Subject: Re: Maiybe a little feature request: readline support in debug.debug()
• From: Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>
• Date: 2015年10月18日 12:50:17 +0200

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Am 18.10.2015 um 11:11 schröbte Marc Balmer:

The Lua command line usually has readline support. Would it be possible to use this in debug.debug(), too? Or would that bloat liblua?

There are licensing issues: libreadline is GPL, and you probably don't want liblua and anything that links to it to be covered by GPL by default. Maybe an interface similar to `lua_setallocf()` would be possible. Then the host application (e.g. the Lua interpreter) can link to libreadline if desired and provide the necessary function pointers to have line editing in `debug.debug()`. Depending on how popular `debug.debug()` really is (I think I've never used it) this might be overkill though.

Philipp

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