linenoise
A small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit (by antirez)
replxx
A readline and libedit replacement that supports UTF-8, syntax highlighting, hints and Windows and is BSD licensed. (by AmokHuginnsson)
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| linenoise | replxx | |
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| 6 | 6 | |
| 3,621 | 667 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.6 | 0.0 | |
| 16 days ago | 15 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
linenoise
Posts with mentions or reviews of linenoise.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-29.
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Keyboard Shortcuts every Command Line Hacker should know about GNU Readline
In a similar vein there's also Linenoise form the creator of Redis.
https://github.com/antirez/linenoise
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Anyone have a shell / device hosted CLI they like?
They use a combination of linenoise and argtable3,
- Release v1.0.0 of lionkor/commandline, a getline()-like library for asynchronous termnial I/O in modern C++
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Is C++ Still Worth Learning? Absolutely! Yes Rust And Go Are Awesome. There Is Still Work To Be Done In C++
oldschool text adventure (with linenoise or replxx)
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Git's list of banned C functions
His linenoise library is my favorite.
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C using arrow keys .
Use linenoise.
replxx
Posts with mentions or reviews of replxx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-09.
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A C++ commandline for use in servers and chat software. Provides very simple asynchronous input/output.
2) Why not replxx? It is BSD licensed.
- Replxx 0.0.4 is out: a C++, GNU readline and BSD libedit replacement library
- replxx 0.0.4 is out: GNU readline and BSD libedit replacement library with modern feature set
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DumboCpp - Declare C++ functions and invoke them via command line interface
This function is then accessible via a CLI provided with the help of replxx. Parameters are checked for correct type and count.
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Is C++ Still Worth Learning? Absolutely! Yes Rust And Go Are Awesome. There Is Still Work To Be Done In C++
oldschool text adventure (with linenoise or replxx)
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C++ "commandline" library for use in servers and terminal chat programs
There is already replxx which has everything you mention and more.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing linenoise and replxx you can also consider the following projects:
microrl - micro read line library for small and embedded devices
tiny-utf8 - Unicode (UTF-8) capable std::string
awesome-hpp - A curated list of awesome header-only C++ libraries
nuspell - 🖋️ Fast and safe spellchecking C++ library
Lingo - Text encoding for modern C++
libnklabs - NK Labs Common Library
commandline - A C++ commandline for use in servers and chat software. Provides very simple asynchronous input/output.
Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
pixel - Simple 2D Graphics based on standard and portable OpenGL