JReadline is a Java library for handling console input with the goal to support most GNU Readline features.
- Line editing
- History (search, persistence)
- Completion
- Masking
- Undo and Redo
- Paste buffer
- Emacs and Vi editing mode
- Supports POSIX OS's and Windows
- Easy to configure (history file & buffer size, edit mode, streams, possible to override terminal impls, etc)
- Support standard out and standard error
- Redirect
- JReadline uses Gradle (http://gradle.org) as its build tool.
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.io.IOException {
org.jboss.jreadline.console.Console console = new org.jboss.jreadline.console.Console();
org.jboss.jreadline.console.ConsoleOutput line;
while ((line = console.read("> ")) != null) {
console.pushToConsole("======>\"" +line.getBuffer()+ "\n");
if (line.getBuffer().equalsIgnoreCase("quit") || line.getBuffer().equalsIgnoreCase("exit")) {
break;
}
}
}
}
Note: C equals Control and M is Meta/Alt
- Move back one char : C-b or left arrow
- Move forward one char : C-f or right arrow
- Delete the character left of cursor : backspace
- Delete the character on cursor : C-d
- Undo : C-_ or C-x C-u
- Move to the start of the line : C-a or home
- Move to the end of the line : C-e or end
- Move forward a word, where a word is composed of letters and digits : M-f
- Move backward a word : M-b
- Previous line : up arrow
- Next line : down arrow
- Clear the screen, reprinting the current line at the top : C-l
- Delete next word to the right of cursor : M-d
- Complete : tab
- Kill the text from the current cursor position to the end of the line : C-k
- Kill from the cursor to the end of the current word, or, if between words, to the end of the next word : M-d
- Kill from the cursor to the previous whitespace : C-w
- Yank the most recently killed text back into the buffer at the cursor : C-y
- Search backward in the history for a particular string : C-r
- Search forward in the history for a particular string : C-s
- Switch to VI editing mode: M-C-j
In command mode: About every vi command is supported, here's a few:
- Move back one char : h
- Move forward one char : l
- Delete the character left of cursor : X
- Delete the character on cursor : x
- Undo : u
- Move to the start of the line : 0
- Move to the end of the line : $
- Move forward a word, where a word is composed of letters and digits : w
- Move backward a word : b
- Previous line : k
- Next line : n
- Clear the screen, reprinting the current line at the top : C-l
- Delete next word to the right of cursor : dw
- Kill the text from the current cursor position to the end of the line : D and d$
- Kill from the cursor to the end of the current word, or, if between words, to the end of the next word : db
- Kill from the cursor to the previous whitespace : dB
- Yank the most recently killed text back into the buffer at the cursor : p (after cursor), P (before cursor)
- Add text into yank buffer : y + movement action
- Enable change mode : c
- Repeat previous action : .
- +++ (read a vi manual)
In edit mode:
- Search backward in the history for a particular string : C-r
- Search forward in the history for a particular string : C-s
- Delete the character left of cursor : backspace
- jreadline.terminal : specify Terminal object
- jreadline.editmode : specify either VI or EMACS edit mode
- jreadline.readinputrc : specify if jreadline should read settings from inputrc
- jreadline.inputrc : specify the inputrc file (must exist)
- jreadline.historyfile : specify the history file (must exist)
- jreadline.historypersistent : specify if jreadlin should persist history file on exit
- jreadline.historydisabled : specify if history should be disabled
- jreadline.historysize : speficy the maximum size of the history file
- jreadline.logging : specify if logging should be enabled
- jreadline.logfile : specify the log file
- jreadline.disablecompletion : specify if completion should be disabled