From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to read into variable with readline support?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:44:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572d5cea-389c-4b3f-deb7-ad340626125b@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180116184238.scei6omyfypdgmpb@spiegl.de>
On 01/16/2018 01:42 PM, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> I would like to read input from the keyboard (like "read $VAR") but
> with editing and history support. I'm sure zsh offers this but I am
> too stupid to find out how.
>
> Thanks!
> Andy
>
People normally use vared, which uses zle for line editing.
vared -c var
you can even change the completion used with it:
() {
local compcontext='hosts:hostname:_hosts'
vared -cp 'choose a host ' ans
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-16 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 18:42 Andy Spiegl
2018-01-16 19:44 ` Eric Cook [this message]
2018-01-18 16:29 ` Andy Spiegl
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