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diff --git a/lib/libedit/editline.3 b/lib/libedit/editline.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9661d66 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libedit/editline.3 @@ -0,0 +1,829 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: editline.3,v 1.55 2007/01/12 16:31:13 christos Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This file was contributed to The NetBSD Foundation by Luke Mewburn. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd January 12, 2007 +.Dt EDITLINE 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm editline , +.Nm el_init , +.Nm el_end , +.Nm el_reset , +.Nm el_gets , +.Nm el_getc , +.Nm el_push , +.Nm el_parse , +.Nm el_set , +.Nm el_get , +.Nm el_source , +.Nm el_resize , +.Nm el_line , +.Nm el_insertstr , +.Nm el_deletestr , +.Nm history_init , +.Nm history_end , +.Nm history , +.Nm tok_init , +.Nm tok_end , +.Nm tok_reset , +.Nm tok_line , +.Nm tok_str +.Nd line editor, history and tokenization functions +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libedit +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In histedit.h +.Ft EditLine * +.Fn el_init "const char *prog" "FILE *fin" "FILE *fout" "FILE *ferr" +.Ft void +.Fn el_end "EditLine *e" +.Ft void +.Fn el_reset "EditLine *e" +.Ft const char * +.Fn el_gets "EditLine *e" "int *count" +.Ft int +.Fn el_getc "EditLine *e" "char *ch" +.Ft void +.Fn el_push "EditLine *e" "char *str" +.Ft int +.Fn el_parse "EditLine *e" "int argc" "const char *argv[]" +.Ft int +.Fn el_set "EditLine *e" "int op" "..." +.Ft int +.Fn el_get "EditLine *e" "int op" "..." +.Ft int +.Fn el_source "EditLine *e" "const char *file" +.Ft void +.Fn el_resize "EditLine *e" +.Ft const LineInfo * +.Fn el_line "EditLine *e" +.Ft int +.Fn el_insertstr "EditLine *e" "const char *str" +.Ft void +.Fn el_deletestr "EditLine *e" "int count" +.Ft History * +.Fn history_init +.Ft void +.Fn history_end "History *h" +.Ft int +.Fn history "History *h" "HistEvent *ev" "int op" "..." +.Ft Tokenizer * +.Fn tok_init "const char *IFS" +.Ft void +.Fn tok_end "Tokenizer *t" +.Ft void +.Fn tok_reset "Tokenizer *t" +.Ft int +.Fo tok_line +.Fa "Tokenizer *t" "const LineInfo *li" "int *argc" "const char **argv[]" +.Fa "int *cursorc" "int *cursoro" +.Fc +.Ft int +.Fn tok_str "Tokenizer *t" "const char *str" "int *argc" "const char **argv[]" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +library provides generic line editing, history and tokenization functions, +similar to those found in +.Xr sh 1 . +.Pp +These functions are available in the +.Nm libedit +library (which needs the +.Nm libtermcap +library). +Programs should be linked with +.Fl ledit ltermcap . +.Sh LINE EDITING FUNCTIONS +The line editing functions use a common data structure, +.Fa EditLine , +which is created by +.Fn el_init +and freed by +.Fn el_end . +.Pp +The following functions are available: +.Bl -tag -width 4n +.It Fn el_init +Initialise the line editor, and return a data structure +to be used by all other line editing functions. +.Fa prog +is the name of the invoking program, used when reading the +.Xr editrc 5 +file to determine which settings to use. +.Fa fin , +.Fa fout +and +.Fa ferr +are the input, output, and error streams (respectively) to use. +In this documentation, references to +.Dq the tty +are actually to this input/output stream combination. +.It Fn el_end +Clean up and finish with +.Fa e , +assumed to have been created with +.Fn el_init . +.It Fn el_reset +Reset the tty and the parser. +This should be called after an error which may have upset the tty's +state. +.It Fn el_gets +Read a line from the tty. +.Fa count +is modified to contain the number of characters read. +Returns the line read if successful, or +.Dv NULL +if no characters were read or if an error occurred. +.It Fn el_getc +Read a character from the tty. +.Fa ch +is modified to contain the character read. +Returns the number of characters read if successful, \-1 otherwise. +.It Fn el_push +Pushes +.Fa str +back onto the input stream. +This is used by the macro expansion mechanism. +Refer to the description of +.Ic bind +.Fl s +in +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Fn el_parse +Parses the +.Fa argv +array (which is +.Fa argc +elements in size) +to execute builtin +.Nm +commands. +If the command is prefixed with +.Dq prog: +then +.Fn el_parse +will only execute the command if +.Dq prog +matches the +.Fa prog +argument supplied to +.Fn el_init . +The return value is +\-1 if the command is unknown, +0 if there was no error or +.Dq prog +did not match, or +1 if the command returned an error. +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Fn el_set +Set +.Nm +parameters. +.Fa op +determines which parameter to set, and each operation has its +own parameter list. +.Pp +The following values for +.Fa op +are supported, along with the required argument list: +.Bl -tag -width 4n +.It Dv EL_PROMPT , Fa "char *(*f)(EditLine *)" +Define prompt printing function as +.Fa f , +which is to return a string that contains the prompt. +.It Dv EL_RPROMPT , Fa "char *(*f)(EditLine *)" +Define right side prompt printing function as +.Fa f , +which is to return a string that contains the prompt. +.It Dv EL_TERMINAL , Fa "const char *type" +Define terminal type of the tty to be +.Fa type , +or to +.Ev TERM +if +.Fa type +is +.Dv NULL . +.It Dv EL_EDITOR , Fa "const char *mode" +Set editing mode to +.Fa mode , +which must be one of +.Dq emacs +or +.Dq vi . +.It Dv EL_SIGNAL , Fa "int flag" +If +.Fa flag +is non-zero, +.Nm +will install its own signal handler for the following signals when +reading command input: +.Dv SIGCONT , +.Dv SIGHUP , +.Dv SIGINT , +.Dv SIGQUIT , +.Dv SIGSTOP , +.Dv SIGTERM , +.Dv SIGTSTP , +and +.Dv SIGWINCH . +Otherwise, the current signal handlers will be used. +.It Dv EL_BIND , Xo +.Fa "const char *" , +.Fa "..." , +.Dv NULL +.Xc +Perform the +.Ic bind +builtin command. +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Dv EL_ECHOTC , Xo +.Fa "const char *" , +.Fa "..." , +.Dv NULL +.Xc +Perform the +.Ic echotc +builtin command. +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Dv EL_SETTC , Xo +.Fa "const char *" , +.Fa "..." , +.Dv NULL +.Xc +Perform the +.Ic settc +builtin command. +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Dv EL_SETTY , Xo +.Fa "const char *" , +.Fa "..." , +.Dv NULL +.Xc +Perform the +.Ic setty +builtin command. +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Dv EL_TELLTC , Xo +.Fa "const char *" , +.Fa "..." , +.Dv NULL +.Xc +Perform the +.Ic telltc +builtin command. +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for more information. +.It Dv EL_ADDFN , Xo +.Fa "const char *name" , +.Fa "const char *help" , +.Fa "unsigned char (*func)(EditLine *e, int ch)" +.Xc +Add a user defined function, +.Fn func , +referred to as +.Fa name +which is invoked when a key which is bound to +.Fa name +is entered. +.Fa help +is a description of +.Fa name . +At invocation time, +.Fa ch +is the key which caused the invocation. +The return value of +.Fn func +should be one of: +.Bl -tag -width "CC_REDISPLAY" +.It Dv CC_NORM +Add a normal character. +.It Dv CC_NEWLINE +End of line was entered. +.It Dv CC_EOF +EOF was entered. +.It Dv CC_ARGHACK +Expecting further command input as arguments, do nothing visually. +.It Dv CC_REFRESH +Refresh display. +.It Dv CC_REFRESH_BEEP +Refresh display, and beep. +.It Dv CC_CURSOR +Cursor moved, so update and perform +.Dv CC_REFRESH . +.It Dv CC_REDISPLAY +Redisplay entire input line. +This is useful if a key binding outputs extra information. +.It Dv CC_ERROR +An error occurred. +Beep, and flush tty. +.It Dv CC_FATAL +Fatal error, reset tty to known state. +.El +.It Dv EL_HIST , Xo +.Fa "History *(*func)(History *, int op, ...)" , +.Fa "const char *ptr" +.Xc +Defines which history function to use, which is usually +.Fn history . +.Fa ptr +should be the value returned by +.Fn history_init . +.It Dv EL_EDITMODE , Fa "int flag" +If +.Fa flag +is non-zero, +editing is enabled (the default). +Note that this is only an indication, and does not +affect the operation of +.Nm . +At this time, it is the caller's responsibility to +check this +(using +.Fn el_get ) +to determine if editing should be enabled or not. +.It Dv EL_GETCFN , Fa "int (*f)(EditLine *, char *c)" +Define the character reading function as +.Fa f , +which is to return the number of characters read and store them in +.Fa c . +This function is called internally by +.Fn el_gets +and +.Fn el_getc . +The builtin function can be set or restored with the special function +name +.Dv EL_BUILTIN_GETCFN . +.It Dv EL_CLIENTDATA , Fa "void *data" +Register +.Fa data +to be associated with this EditLine structure. +It can be retrieved with the corresponding +.Fn el_get +call. +.It Dv EL_SETFP , Fa "int fd" , Fa "FILE *fp" +Set the current +.Nm editline +file pointer for +.Dq input +.Fa fd += +.Dv 0 , +.Dq output +.Fa fd += +.Dv 1 , +or +.Dq error +.Fa fd += +.Dv 2 +from +.Fa fp . +.El +.It Fn el_get +Get +.Nm +parameters. +.Fa op +determines which parameter to retrieve into +.Fa result . +Returns 0 if successful, \-1 otherwise. +.Pp +The following values for +.Fa op +are supported, along with actual type of +.Fa result : +.Bl -tag -width 4n +.It Dv EL_PROMPT , Fa "char *(*f)(EditLine *)" +Return a pointer to the function that displays the prompt. +.It Dv EL_RPROMPT , Fa "char *(*f)(EditLine *)" +Return a pointer to the function that displays the rightside prompt. +.It Dv EL_EDITOR , Fa "const char *" +Return the name of the editor, which will be one of +.Dq emacs +or +.Dq vi . +.It Dv EL_GETTC , Fa "const char *name" , Fa "void *value" +Return non-zero if +.Fa name +is a valid +.Xr termcap 5 +capability +and set +.Fa value +to the current value of that capability. +.It Dv EL_SIGNAL , Fa "int *" +Return non-zero if +.Nm +has installed private signal handlers (see +.Fn el_get +above). +.It Dv EL_EDITMODE , Fa "int *" +Return non-zero if editing is enabled. +.It Dv EL_GETCFN , Fa "int (**f)(EditLine *, char *)" +Return a pointer to the function that read characters, which is equal to +.Dv EL_BUILTIN_GETCFN +in the case of the default builtin function. +.It Dv EL_CLIENTDATA , Fa "void **data" +Retrieve +.Fa data +previously registered with the corresponding +.Fn el_set +call. +.It Dv EL_UNBUFFERED , Fa "int" +Sets or clears unbuffered mode. +In this mode, +.Fn el_gets +will return immediately after processing a single character. +.It Dv EL_PREP_TERM , Fa "int" +Sets or clears terminal editing mode. +.It Dv EL_GETFP , Fa "int fd", Fa "FILE **fp" +Return in +.Fa fp +the current +.Nm editline +file pointer for +.Dq input +.Fa fd += +.Dv 0 , +.Dq output +.Fa fd += +.Dv 1 , +or +.Dq error +.Fa fd += +.Dv 2 . +.El +.It Fn el_source +Initialise +.Nm +by reading the contents of +.Fa file . +.Fn el_parse +is called for each line in +.Fa file . +If +.Fa file +is +.Dv NULL , +try +.Pa $PWD/.editrc +then +.Pa $HOME/.editrc . +Refer to +.Xr editrc 5 +for details on the format of +.Fa file . +.It Fn el_resize +Must be called if the terminal size changes. +If +.Dv EL_SIGNAL +has been set with +.Fn el_set , +then this is done automatically. +Otherwise, it is the responsibility of the application to call +.Fn el_resize +on the appropriate occasions. +.It Fn el_line +Return the editing information for the current line in a +.Fa LineInfo +structure, which is defined as follows: +.Bd -literal +typedef struct lineinfo { + const char *buffer; /* address of buffer */ + const char *cursor; /* address of cursor */ + const char *lastchar; /* address of last character */ +} LineInfo; +.Ed +.Pp +.Fa buffer +is not NUL terminated. +This function may be called after +.Fn el_gets +to obtain the +.Fa LineInfo +structure pertaining to line returned by that function, +and from within user defined functions added with +.Dv EL_ADDFN . +.It Fn el_insertstr +Insert +.Fa str +into the line at the cursor. +Returns \-1 if +.Fa str +is empty or will not fit, and 0 otherwise. +.It Fn el_deletestr +Delete +.Fa count +characters before the cursor. +.El +.Sh HISTORY LIST FUNCTIONS +The history functions use a common data structure, +.Fa History , +which is created by +.Fn history_init +and freed by +.Fn history_end . +.Pp +The following functions are available: +.Bl -tag -width 4n +.It Fn history_init +Initialise the history list, and return a data structure +to be used by all other history list functions. +.It Fn history_end +Clean up and finish with +.Fa h , +assumed to have been created with +.Fn history_init . +.It Fn history +Perform operation +.Fa op +on the history list, with optional arguments as needed by the +operation. +.Fa ev +is changed accordingly to operation. +The following values for +.Fa op +are supported, along with the required argument list: +.Bl -tag -width 4n +.It Dv H_SETSIZE , Fa "int size" +Set size of history to +.Fa size +elements. +.It Dv H_GETSIZE +Get number of events currently in history. +.It Dv H_END +Cleans up and finishes with +.Fa h , +assumed to be created with +.Fn history_init . +.It Dv H_CLEAR +Clear the history. +.It Dv H_FUNC , Xo +.Fa "void *ptr" , +.Fa "history_gfun_t first" , +.Fa "history_gfun_t next" , +.Fa "history_gfun_t last" , +.Fa "history_gfun_t prev" , +.Fa "history_gfun_t curr" , +.Fa "history_sfun_t set" , +.Fa "history_vfun_t clear" , +.Fa "history_efun_t enter" , +.Fa "history_efun_t add" +.Xc +Define functions to perform various history operations. +.Fa ptr +is the argument given to a function when it is invoked. +.It Dv H_FIRST +Return the first element in the history. +.It Dv H_LAST +Return the last element in the history. +.It Dv H_PREV +Return the previous element in the history. +.It Dv H_NEXT +Return the next element in the history. +.It Dv H_CURR +Return the current element in the history. +.It Dv H_SET +Set the cursor to point to the requested element. +.It Dv H_ADD , Fa "const char *str" +Append +.Fa str +to the current element of the history, or perform the +.Dv H_ENTER +operation with argument +.Fa str +if there is no current element. +.It Dv H_APPEND , Fa "const char *str" +Append +.Fa str +to the last new element of the history. +.It Dv H_ENTER , Fa "const char *str" +Add +.Fa str +as a new element to the history, and, if necessary, +removing the oldest entry to keep the list to the created size. +If +.Dv H_SETUNIQUE +was has been called with a non-zero arguments, the element +will not be entered into the history if its contents match +the ones of the current history element. +If the element is entered +.Fn history +returns 1, if it is ignored as a duplicate returns 0. +Finally +.Fn history +returns \-1 if an error occurred. +.It Dv H_PREV_STR , Fa "const char *str" +Return the closest previous event that starts with +.Fa str . +.It Dv H_NEXT_STR , Fa "const char *str" +Return the closest next event that starts with +.Fa str . +.It Dv H_PREV_EVENT , Fa "int e" +Return the previous event numbered +.Fa e . +.It Dv H_NEXT_EVENT , Fa "int e" +Return the next event numbered +.Fa e . +.It Dv H_LOAD , Fa "const char *file" +Load the history list stored in +.Fa file . +.It Dv H_SAVE , Fa "const char *file" +Save the history list to +.Fa file . +.It Dv H_SETUNIQUE , Fa "int unique" +Set flag that adjacent identical event strings should not be entered +into the history. +.It Dv H_GETUNIQUE +Retrieve the current setting if adjacent identical elements should +be entered into the history. +.It Dv H_DEL , Fa "int e" +Delete the event numbered +.Fa e . +This function is only provided for +.Xr readline 3 +compatibility. +The caller is responsible for free'ing the string in the returned +.Fa HistEvent . +.El +.Pp +The +.Fn history +function returns \*[Ge] 0 if the operation +.Fa op +succeeds. +Otherwise, \-1 is returned and +.Fa ev +is updated to contain more details about the error. +.El +.Sh TOKENIZATION FUNCTIONS +The tokenization functions use a common data structure, +.Fa Tokenizer , +which is created by +.Fn tok_init +and freed by +.Fn tok_end . +.Pp +The following functions are available: +.Bl -tag -width 4n +.It Fn tok_init +Initialise the tokenizer, and return a data structure +to be used by all other tokenizer functions. +.Fa IFS +contains the Input Field Separators, which defaults to +.Aq space , +.Aq tab , +and +.Aq newline +if +.Dv NULL . +.It Fn tok_end +Clean up and finish with +.Fa t , +assumed to have been created with +.Fn tok_init . +.It Fn tok_reset +Reset the tokenizer state. +Use after a line has been successfully tokenized +by +.Fn tok_line +or +.Fn tok_str +and before a new line is to be tokenized. +.It Fn tok_line +Tokenize +.Fa li , +if successful, modify +.Fa argv +to contain the words, +.Fa argc +to contain the number of words, +.Fa cursorc +(if not +.Dv NULL ) +to contain the index of the word containing the cursor, +and +.Fa cursoro +(if not +.Dv NULL ) +to contain the offset within +.Fa argv[cursorc] +of the cursor. +.Pp +Returns +0 if successful, +\-1 for an internal error, +1 for an unmatched single quote, +2 for an unmatched double quote, +and +3 for a backslash quoted +.Aq newline . +A positive exit code indicates that another line should be read +and tokenization attempted again. +.It Fn tok_str +A simpler form of +.Fn tok_line ; +.Fa str +is a NUL terminated string to tokenize. +.El +.\"XXX.Sh EXAMPLES +.\"XXX: provide some examples +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr sh 1 , +.Xr signal 3 , +.Xr termcap 3 , +.Xr editrc 5 , +.Xr termcap 5 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +library first appeared in +.Bx 4.4 . +.Dv CC_REDISPLAY +appeared in +.Nx 1.3 . +.Dv CC_REFRESH_BEEP +and +.Dv EL_EDITMODE +appeared in +.Nx 1.4 . +.Dv EL_RPROMPT +appeared in +.Nx 1.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +library was written by +.An Christos Zoulas . +.An Luke Mewburn +wrote this manual and implemented +.Dv CC_REDISPLAY , +.Dv CC_REFRESH_BEEP , +.Dv EL_EDITMODE , +and +.Dv EL_RPROMPT . +.Sh BUGS +At this time, it is the responsibility of the caller to +check the result of the +.Dv EL_EDITMODE +operation of +.Fn el_get +(after an +.Fn el_source +or +.Fn el_parse ) +to determine if +.Nm +should be used for further input. +I.e., +.Dv EL_EDITMODE +is purely an indication of the result of the most recent +.Xr editrc 5 +.Ic edit +command. |