Re: [jboss-as7-dev] cli terminal changes

Hi Alexey, No concerns about the actual change but just in case anyone asks for it please do not get a pull request into AS 7.1.2. Before this makes it into an actual release I would like to take some time myself to verify the security integrations as those used some specific features such as not echoing passwords and suspending history capture. Regards, Darran Lofthouse. On 05/07/2012 07:18 AM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote: > I'd like to let everybody know that thanks to Stale's efforts we are > switching from jline to Stale's jreadline project as the base > console/terminal for the CLI. > > jline has a number of bugs that we can't do anything about. jreadline > has fixed those and Stale is happy to continue improving things. > > Of course, a few changes will come along with the switch. They are > > - the ordering of columns are different compared to jline, jreadline > does it similar to bash; > - tab-completion is more like bash, i.e. if there are 'file' and > 'file2', completing 'f' will result in 'file' w/o showing 'file2' > candidate (like jline would do) unless the tab key is pressed after 'file'; > - there are no more files that are read to enable key bindings. By > default emacs-mode is enabled, but vi-mode is also supported. jreadline > has more keybindings compared to jline and also follows what's default > in bash; > - atm reading the ~/.inputrc is not enabled, but we could enable if > necessary. If people have defined vi-mode, it will catch it and enable > vi-mode by default; > - undo and redo is another new feature afaik. > > In the future it will also be possible to customize different bindings > to different actions in that file, but its not supported now. > > Here are a couple of major issues that'll be fixed with the switch: > - to be able to navigate and edit commands that spread across multiple > lines (AS7-2615 Backspace doesn't work over linebreaks); > - AS7-2436 clear screen doesn't work on windows 7. > > > The pull request hasn't been sent yet. It's just a warning that this is > coming. > > Please, let us know if you have any concerns about this. > > Thanks, > Alexey > _______________________________________________ > jboss-as7-dev mailing list > jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev