port linenoise to D

[MartinNowak]

It's a very small library, so porting this will make a useful D library and gets rid of an external dependency.

[John-Colvin]

I'm in the process of doing this, I'll let you know as it progresses.

[MartinNowak]

Great news, it's a really neat library that may benefit many projects.

[John-Colvin]

This has been delayed a little as I've changed my focus. Current plan:

1. Simple unicode-correct (at very least UTF-*) line-editing library in idiomatic D. No global state, can operate multiple terminals independently. Status: Surprisingly easy and currently 50% complete (the logic is mostly done, the API needs designing).

2. Provide a C API to the library: a simple, small, unicode-aware line editing library is a useful tool outside of D.

3. Provide the linenoise API, i.e. the library becomes a dropin replacement for linenoise.

[MartinNowak]

👍

[MartinNowak]

Just saw that MongoDB uses an improved version of linenoise, that apparently supports reverse search and Windows.
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/src/mongo/shell/linenoise.cpp

[wilzbach]

This has been delayed a little as I've changed my focus. Current plan:

@John-Colvin did you ever finish the pure D console library?

[MartinNowak]

I think porting the MongoDB fork of linenoise would be a good option.
Nowadays I'm using fish-shell (which has a nicer auto-completion and history), maybe they have some nice terminal code to port as well.