rustyline VS crossterm

This latest release adds a Rustyline-based REPL and additional tools for using the filesystem as a relational database. The new init subcommand lets you declare the primary key by which a directory (and its subdirectories) are indexed, while ins and del now allow insertion and deletion of records while keeping related indices up to date. ls is helpful in the REPL, showing Ghee's view of the world.

That what gnu readline is good at, interpreter like interface. There is also this one https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline

In the process of implementing Marwood's web REPL, I ported rust's [Rustyline](https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline) readline library to an Xterm.js typescript addon called [xterm-readline](https://github.com/strtok/xterm-readline/).

There is rustyline, which is a readline implementation. It supports line editing in emacs or vi mode (selectable). I don't know if it can operate on two strings as input, but if your program takes input from a terminal, this could be what you are looking for.

Not sure if it will help in this case (docs always take effort to write and make good), but most crates have an examples directory in the root of their repo which can be helpful in the absence of guide-level docs https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline/tree/master/examples

https://crates.io/crates/rustyline - readline clone in Rust

https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline (literally, input a command)

Also based on popular demand, the REPL tool now uses a slightly enhanced version of rustyline for line editing and history.

it is also worth checking if library contains examples. this one does.

Maybe try reedline or rustyline and see if they meet your needs?

I have this feeling with all rust apps using crossterm crate as their backend like GitUI for example

I guess you could use EventStream like in this example

Made a small toy using crossterm that simulates the falling sand using the rules laid out by day 14. Bit late to the party but was pretty fun. The moment I saw the prompt I was fully intent on making some sort of visualization for this after getting the solution.

There are plenty of terminal UI libraries that are actually nice to work with. For Python, there's Textual and PyTermGUI. For Rust, there's ratatui and Cursive (or, if you want something a bit lower level, crosster or termion). For Go, there's bubbletea.

Switching the backend of Cursive to crossterm removed dependence on ncurses

I don't know where to start, CrossTerm can read events asynchronously with tokio https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm/blob/master/examples/event-stream-tokio.rs , but I don't have any idea what that really means, I am coming from the HTML Canvas and TypeScript. I want the most simple and basic method possible. Cheers!

Just wondering if anyone has any insight into the current development and maintenance of termion? It currently has 67 issues and 24 merge requests and no code activity has happened since Sep 27 2021, so nothing in over a year. I am of course grateful for the existing project, but just somewhat concerned that it ends up being abandoned or forgotten seeing as it is one of the premiere tui libraries written purely in Rust (other being crossterm).

I might make a gui frontend in the future, but for now i'll focus on the terminal. The terminal doesn't mean it doesnt support mac or windows though, they have terminals too! And the library used for accepting key-input is crossterm which supports windows!

I used crossterm. Really love the simplicity of the API, definitely fit my purposes well.

For the terminal part you could use https://crates.io/crates/crossterm