How can I make fansh even easier to use?

Simple, you just need to wrap it with rlwrap!

What can rlwrap do for me?

Here are some examples.

Where can I get rlwrap?

• Windows: latest version of rlwrap is 0.24-1

  Install from Cygwin or MinGW.

• Linux: latest version of rlwrap is 0.30

  Install from your distro's repository

• OS X: latest version of rlwrap is 0.30

  Install rlwrap via Fink or MacPorts

If all else fails you can get the source from rlwrap's homepage.

For more information, have a look at the rlwrap README. For even more information, there's the rlwrap manpage and the readline manpage.

It would be nice to be able to have fansh come pre-wrapped in rlwrap, but I guess we could make to with a HOWTO for now.

If anyone would like to re-write the post so that it reads better, I've uploaded the source to the first post to pastebin.

If you're on OS X or a Linux distro, you should be able to

touch ~/.fansh_completions

and copy and paste anything that you want rlwrap to tab-complete for you into that file (for example, all the names of the Types of the Build api). You might have to restart the terminal to get things up and running.

I hope this makes fansh even easier to use for you guys! :)

Since readline doesn't work easily with Windows, it's probably a better investment to break Fansh into more of an API that can be embedded into IDEs, such as Flux. That was something I was toying with a while ago, but never got around to finishing.

Since readline doesn't work easily with Windows, it's probably a better investment to break Fansh into more of an API that can be embedded into IDEs, such as Flux.

Agree, hard to do a really good portable command line tool without bringing in some new dependencies. Although I would say fansh could use a lot of work all around.