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----- id: minline github: minline home: /minline/ title: "minline" subtitle: "A mininalist line editing library" summary: "A minimalist but highly-customizable line editing library for Nim projects, providing auto-completion, custom key bindings, and more." content-type: project active: true version: 0.1.1 version-badge: 0.1.1 release-color: yellow license: MIT docs: /minline/minline.html ----- A line editing library in pure Nim designed to be easy to use and provide a minimal (but useful) set of features to build interactive CLI applications. *minline* provides: * Basic line editing functionality, move the cursor left and right, delete characters etc. * Support for a simple prompt at the beginning of the line. * Support for hiding typed characters (and print asterisks instead). * Support for intercepting keypresses before they are printed to stdout. * Some Emacs-like keybindings. * Customizable line completion. * Customizable key bindings (i.e. bind a key or a sequence of keys to a Nim proc). * Persistent history management (history entries can be written to a file). *minline* does *not* provide: * Support for multiple lines (you will not be able to move to the next line) * Support for Unicode or characters other than ASCII. * Support for colors in the prompt. * Full Emacs or Vi key bindings. For more information, see [the reference docs](/minline/minline.html). |