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What if someone took c.c, k.h, linenoise.c and linenoise.h and made a tiny k4 REPL for UNIX with commandline history?

Would the k community appreciate this as useful, pragmatic solution?

I am a BSD /emul/linux, /bin/sh, vi-mode, ESC / user. I need searchable commandline history for q)k) and I really do not like rlwrap as a solution.

sources:

http://kx.com/q/c/c/ http://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/linenoise/master/li... http://raw.githubusercontent.com/antirez/linenoise/master/li...

[jxy]

For q/k in particular, you can just write a wrapper in q/k. Nothing stops you from doing

    while[1;0N!. 0:0]

you can save the history in a table and do whatever you want.

[uudecode]

"Nothing stops you..."

Except my lack of creativity using k at this point.

Thanks for this.

As a k noob, I wonder: is thinking of solutions using iteration and control structures a bad habit, at least until I have command of the rest of the language?

Currently I'm using recordio to save my sessions; crude, but it works well enough:

  recordio q 2>log

[uudecode]

Here's another solution, a little better than rlwrap:

  socat readline,history=file exec:q