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[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/22/15 8:27 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> BTW you should try the terminal.getline function in my terminal.d. It is
> fairly new, my own reimplementation of an editable getline with history
> and completion based on the history.
>
> One of the things mine does is show a bit of suggestion of it is
> unambiguous and also if you hit tab twice, it colors in what you've
> already written. So like:
>
> $ foo<tab>
> foobar
> foobaz
>
> There, it would auto fill the ba and color "fooba". Then it is easy to
> see the next key to continue is either r or z.
>
> I wonder if gnu getline can do that too, in a list with long commands,
> it is hard to tell where the ambiguity actually is.
>
> Of course, eventually I'll write my own shell with my own completion
> function! terminal.d is slowly getting there.

Cool! Is it on dub yet? -- Andrei