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A small, portable GNU readline replacement for Linux, Windows andMacOS which is capable of handling UTF-8 characters. Unlike GNUreadline, which is GPL, this library uses a BSD license and can beused in any kind of program.

This replxx implementation is based on the work byArangoDB Team andSalvatore Sanfilippo and10gen Inc. The goal is to create a zero-config, BSDlicensed, readline replacement usable in Apache2 or BSD licensedprograms.

• single-line and multi-line editing mode with the usual key bindings implemented
• history handling
• completion
• syntax highlighting
• hints
• BSD license source code
• Only uses a subset of VT100 escapes (ANSI.SYS compatible)
• UTF8 aware
• support for Linux, MacOS and Windows

To build this library, you will need a C++11-enabled compiler andsome recent version of CMake.

1. Create a build directory

mkdir -p build&&cd build

2. Build the library

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..&& make

3. Install the library at the default target location

sudo make install

The default installation location can be adjusted by setting theDESTDIRvariable when invokingmake install:

make DESTDIR=/tmp install

1. Create a build directory in MS-DOS command prompt

md buildcd build

2. Generate Visual Studio solution file with cmake

• 32 bit:

cmake -G"Visual Studio 12 2013" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

• 64 bit:

cmake -G"Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..

3. Open the generated filereplxx.sln in thebuild subdirectory with Visual Studio.

• Linux text only console ($TERM = linux)
• Linux KDE terminal application ($TERM = xterm)
• Linux xterm ($TERM = xterm)
• Linux Buildroot ($TERM = vt100)
• Mac OS X iTerm ($TERM = xterm)
• Mac OS X default Terminal.app ($TERM = xterm)
• OpenBSD 4.5 through an OSX Terminal.app ($TERM = screen)
• IBM AIX 6.1
• FreeBSD xterm ($TERM = xterm)
• ANSI.SYS
• Emacs comint mode ($TERM = dumb)
• Windows

Please test it everywhere you can and report back!