Coolline is a simple readline-like library that allows you to change the way the input is displayed while theuser is typing. This is meant to allow the implementation of live syntax highlighting:
require 'coolline'
require 'coderay'
require 'pp'
cool = Coolline.new do |c|
c.transform_proc = proc do
CodeRay.scan(c.line, :ruby).term
end
c.completion_proc = proc do
word = c.completed_word
Object.constants.map(&:to_s).select { |w| w.start_with? word }
end
end
loop do
line = cool.readline
obj = eval(line)
print "=> "
pp obj
end
Coolline automatically loads a config file before starting, which allows adding
new key bindings to it. The file is just a chunk of arbitrary ruby code located
at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/coolline/coolline.rb
.
Coolline.bind "\C-z" do |cool|
puts "Testing key binding with #{cool}!"
end
gem install coolline
Notice this needs io-console (which is part of Ruby 1.9.3).