minline

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.