I notice that some programs (e.g. sqlite, mysql client) provide a command-line prompt that is very similar in capabilities to the bash's, including:
- line editing with left and right arrows, delete, insert, ^K, etc.
- history browsing with up and down arrows
- ^R for reverse i-search in command history
which make me think that they are using the same toolset for this.
I'd like to create a prompt with similar capabilities in my program, which tools can I use? I prefer it to have the same functionality as in bash, so that the users would be familiar with it.
Most of these use the GNU readline library