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Do you plan to support the equivalent of ~/.inputrc to configure editing options (specifically vi editing mode)?

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...

That's a good one. Although, considering I built the library to allow developers build their own bash like experiences I think it might be better to leave it up to them to define their own editing config files

Hi, I'm the author of prompt_toolkit. A library that does something similar for Python. Don't hesitate to copy anything you need. It took me a few iterations to get the API as I wanted.

One thing I underestimated was the importance of having all readline key bindings available. People are really sensitive when certain functionality that they are used to is missing. (And you've no idea how much functionality there is in readline until you have to implement it.)

Thanks jonathan, I'll be sure to take a look. Having feature parity with GNU Readline is something I'm hoping to have in the future, it's a lot of work but it's open source so Im sure I'm not alone :)

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