A monad transformer which carries all of the state and settings relevant to a line-reading application.

Run a line-reading application. This function should suffice for most applications.

This function is equivalent to runInputTBehavior defaultBehavior. It uses terminal-style interaction if stdin is connected to a terminal and has echoing enabled. Otherwise (e.g., if stdin is a pipe), it uses file-style interaction.

If it uses terminal-style interaction, Prefs will be read from the user's ~/.haskeline file (if present). If it uses file-style interaction, Prefs are not relevant and will not be read.

Returns True if the current session uses terminal-style interaction. (See Behavior.)

Map a user interaction by modifying the base monad computation.

Haskeline has two ways of interacting with the user:

• "Terminal-style" interaction provides an rich user interface by connecting to the user's terminal (which may be different than stdin or stdout).
• "File-style" interaction treats the input as a simple stream of characters, for example when reading from a file or pipe. Input functions (e.g., getInputLine) print the prompt to stdout.

A Behavior is a method for deciding at run-time which type of interaction to use.

For most applications (e.g., a REPL), defaultBehavior should have the correct effect.

Run a line-reading application according to the given behavior.

If it uses terminal-style interaction, Prefs will be read from the user's ~/.haskeline file (if present). If it uses file-style interaction, Prefs are not relevant and will not be read.

Read input from stdin. Use terminal-style interaction if stdin is connected to a terminal and has echoing enabled. Otherwise (e.g., if stdin is a pipe), use file-style interaction.

This behavior should suffice for most applications.

Use file-style interaction, reading input from the given Handle.

Use file-style interaction, reading input from the given file.

Use terminal-style interaction whenever possible, even if stdin and/or stdout are not terminals.

If it cannot open the user's terminal, use file-style interaction, reading input from stdin.

Reads one line of input. The final newline (if any) is removed. When using terminal-style interaction, this function provides a rich line-editing user interface.

If autoAddHistory == True and the line input is nonblank (i.e., is not all spaces), it will be automatically added to the history.

Reads one line of input and fills the insertion space with initial text. When using terminal-style interaction, this function provides a rich line-editing user interface with the added ability to give the user default values.

This function behaves in the exact same manner as getInputLine, except that it pre-populates the input area. The text that resides in the input area is given as a 2-tuple with two Strings. The string on the left of the tuple (obtained by calling fst) is what will appear to the left of the cursor and the string on the right (obtained by calling snd) is what will appear to the right of the cursor.

Some examples of calling of this function are:

getInputLineWithInitial "prompt> " ("left", "") -- The cursor starts at the end of the line.
getInputLineWithInitial "prompt> " ("left ", "right") -- The cursor starts before the second word.

Reads one character of input. Ignores non-printable characters.

When using terminal-style interaction, the character will be read without waiting for a newline.

When using file-style interaction, a newline will be read if it is immediately available after the input character.

Reads one line of input, without displaying the input while it is being typed. When using terminal-style interaction, the masking character (if given) will replace each typed character.

When using file-style interaction, this function turns off echoing while reading the line of input.

Note that if Haskeline is built against a version of the Win32 library earlier than 2.5, getPassword will incorrectly echo back input on MinTTY consoles (such as Cygwin or MSYS).

Write a Unicode string to the user's standard output.

Write a string to the user's standard output, followed by a newline.

Return a printing function, which in terminal-style interactions is thread-safe and may be run concurrently with user input without affecting the prompt.

Application-specific customizations to the user interface.

A useful default. In particular:

defaultSettings = Settings {
          complete = completeFilename,
          historyFile = Nothing,
          autoAddHistory = True
          }

Because complete is the only field of Settings depending on m, the expression defaultSettings {completionFunc = f} leads to a type error from being too general. This function works around that issue, and may become unnecessary if another field depending on m is added.

Prefs allow the user to customize the terminal-style line-editing interface. They are read by default from ~/.haskeline; to override that behavior, use readPrefs and runInputTWithPrefs.

Each line of a .haskeline file defines one field of the Prefs datatype; field names are case-insensitive and unparseable lines are ignored. For example:

editMode: Vi
completionType: MenuCompletion
maxhistorysize: Just 40

Read Prefs from a given file. If there is an error reading the file, the defaultPrefs will be returned.

The default preferences which may be overwritten in the .haskeline file.

Run a line-reading application. Uses defaultBehavior to determine the interaction behavior.

Run a line-reading application.

Get the current line input history.

Set the line input history.

Change the current line input history.

If Ctrl-C is pressed during the given action, throw an exception of type Interrupt. For example:

tryAction :: InputT IO ()
tryAction = handle (\Interrupt -> outputStrLn "Cancelled.")
               $ withInterrupt $ someLongAction

The action can handle the interrupt itself; a new Interrupt exception will be thrown every time Ctrl-C is pressed.

tryAction :: InputT IO ()
tryAction = withInterrupt loop
    where loop = handle (\Interrupt -> outputStrLn "Cancelled; try again." >> loop)
                   someLongAction

This behavior differs from GHC's built-in Ctrl-C handling, which may immediately terminate the program after the second time that the user presses Ctrl-C.

Catch and handle an exception of type Interrupt.

handleInterrupt f = handle $ \Interrupt -> f