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UniqueEditLine botches previous line
I'd like to use readline as a front end for a microcontroller attached over serial, to provide command history and searching. The basic idea is: enter a line, the line is sent out, gets echoed and processed by the microcontroller, and so on.
It works fine for normal use. The line is cleared when I hit return, and the echoed results show up in its place - just as intended. One special detail is that the returned line may contain more information than what was entered, appended to the end (i.e. results of a command are shown on the same line).
When I hit up/down arrow, I can access command history, and everything still works splendidly.
But when I hit ctrl-r, the text bck-i-search:
is printed and the cursor then moves up. This then destroys what was reported in the last output line.
Furthermore, when hitting a key repeatedly, if there is no matching history entry, the cursor will continue to be moved up, with below it the text failing bck-i-search: ...
. Hitting x repeatedly will gradually clear the entire screen while moving the cursor up.
Am I using this package wrong? Is there a way to work around this? Have I hit a bug in readline?
Attached the entire code I'm using. I can test further and provide more information - please just let me know. I'm using the latest version of readline from GitHub as of Oct 16th.
Cheers, -jcw
PS. I'm on macOS 10.12, the above happens with both Terminal and iTerm2.
package main
import (
"os"
"bytes"
"github.com/chzyer/readline"
"github.com/pkg/term"
)
func main() {
tty, _ := term.Open("/dev/cu.usbmodemD5D4C5E3",
term.Speed(115200), term.RawMode)
rl, _ := readline.NewEx(&readline.Config{
UniqueEditLine: true,
})
defer rl.Close()
go func() {
for {
line := make([]byte, 100)
n, _ := tty.Read(line)
line = bytes.Replace(line[:n], []byte("\n"), []byte("\r\n"), -1)
os.Stdout.Write(line)
}
}()
for {
line, err := rl.Readline()
if err != nil {
break
}
tty.Write([]byte(line + "\r"))
}
}