getline.cs update: Partying like it is 1992

by Miguel de Icaza

Back in 2008, I wrote about getline.cs, a single-file command line editor for shell application. It included Emacs key bindings, history, customizable completion and incremental search. It is equivalent to GNU's readline library, except it is implemented in a single C# file.

I recently updated getline.cs to add a popup-based completion and C# heuristics for when to automatically trigger code completion. This is what it looks like when using in Mono's C# REPL in the command line:

Posted on 14 Jan 2016