It seems that the repo hasn't moved much recently. I'd be interested in helping maintening the code and moving it forward (e.g. adding some direly missing escape keys such as ctrl-l or ctrl-{left,right}).

Hi,

I am packaging this package to Debian. But now I get one lintian info as follows:

I: liblinenoise-ocaml-dev: unstripped-static-library (lNoise.o) [usr/lib/ocaml/linenoise/linenoise.a]

This is not a real issue from my review. But on Debian, there is one tool called debhelper(dh_strip) to strip these static libraries like libstatic-library.a name scheme:

# Is it a static library, and not a debug library?
	if ($fn =~ m/\/lib[^\/]*\.a$/ && $fn !~ m/.*_g\.a$/) {
		# Is it a binary file, or something else (maybe a linker
		# script on Hurd, for example? I don't use file, because
		# file returns a variety of things on static libraries.
		if (-B $fn) {
			push @static_libs, $fn;
			return;
		}
	}

I can use lintian-override to override the info on the package. But before do this, I should forward this upstream and could I ask if we can convert linenoise.a to liblinenoise.a?

TIA.

• at least do not output ugly escape codes
• at best, move to prev/next word boundary

Currently it's marked as incompatible by @fdopen: fdopen/opam-repository-mingw@23748b9

It's required for enabling Windows builds for BAP: BinaryAnalysisPlatform/bap#1254

line 75 of 'linenoise_stubs.c', should check if errno==EAGAIN (in which case raise instead of retuning None)

@fxfactorial have you had this kind of issue? in a program that sets the hint callback, after a Gc.compact() the next attempt to input something segfaults.

It seems that right now there is no call to caml_add_global_root (and caml_remove_global_root) like it should; even when I'm trying to add these it's not sufficient.

Any hint would be greatly appreciated…

Description

After I used λ as a prompt message, ocaml-linenoise displayed a cursor at a wierd position.
For example, when I typed abc (without a space), my terminal displays something like this.

λ abc _
     ^ Here is a weird space

What you expected

ocaml-linenoise handles λ (and any other UTF-8 encoded characters) in a proper way so that it places characters and the cursor at expected positions like the following.

λ abc_
     ^ This underscore is the cursor.

Reproduction

https://github.com/Ailrun/ocaml-linenoise-issue-13
This repository also includes instructions to reproduce the bug.

I'd like to have access to settings to update the docs (moving to gh-pages) and maybe setup CI. I also wonder if it makes sense to migrate the repository somewhere else (maybe ocaml-community but not sure if it's not too niche). What do you think @fxfactorial ?

see if anything can be done?

along with #3