I am trying to build a console application that takes user input. I was able to use printf to keep the cursor in the same place, I could have used curses as well, but I can’t get up-arrow command history to work. Any pointers ?
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I am trying to build a console application that takes user input. I was able to use printf to keep the cursor in the same place, I could have used curses as well, but I can’t get up-arrow command history to work. Any pointers ?
I think you want readline (www.gnu.org/software/readline/ which seems to now redirect to the maintainer site at http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html)