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gnu readline: How to keep a history list of entered command lines Posted on June 13th

When I was assigned a project to create a text console based simulator, I am looking into how to keep a history list of entered command lines like Bash Shell. Users are allow to search through the history list by hitting UP and DOWN arrow key.

GNU readline library provides this feature, and it is pretty easy to use. Lets look at the example below:

I use rl_bind_key() to disable the tab key for file auto-complete that enabled by default. I will write another post for custom auto-complete using libreadline soon. add_history() is used to add the enterd inputs into the history list, and key bindings to arrow keys are enabled by default.

Compile it with g++ now:

g++ -o simple_rl{,.cpp} -lreadline

That is it, simple and nice :)

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