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| 2 | From: Jeff Solomon <[email protected]>
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| 3 | Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
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| 4 | To: [email protected]
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| 5 | Subject: new readline example
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| 6 | Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | Chet,
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| 9 |
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| 10 | I've been using readline 4.0. Specifically, I've been using the perl
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| 11 | version Term::ReadLine::Gnu. It works great.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | Anyway, I've been playing around the alternate interface and I wanted
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| 14 | to contribute a little C program, callback.c, to you that you could
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| 15 | use as an example of the alternate interface in the /examples
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| 16 | directory of the readline distribution.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | My example shows how, using the alternate interface, you can
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| 19 | interactively change the prompt (which is very nice imo). Also, I
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| 20 | point out that you must roll your own terminal setting when using the
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| 21 | alternate interface because readline depreps (using your parlance) the
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| 22 | terminal while in the user callback. I try to demostrate what I mean
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| 23 | with an example. I've included the program below.
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| 24 |
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| 25 | To compile, I just put the program in the examples directory and made
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| 26 | the appropriate changes to the EXECUTABLES and OBJECTS line and added
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| 27 | an additional target 'callback'.
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| 28 |
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| 29 | I compiled on my Sun Solaris2.6 box using Sun's cc.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | Let me know what you think.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | Jeff
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| 34 | */
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| 35 |
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| 36 | #if defined (HAVE_CONFIG_H)
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| 37 | #include <config.h>
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| 38 | #endif
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| 39 |
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| 40 | #include <stdio.h>
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| 41 | #include <sys/types.h>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
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| 44 | #include <unistd.h>
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| 45 | #endif
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| 46 |
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| 47 | #include <termios.h> /* xxx - should make this more general */
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| 48 |
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| 49 | #ifdef READLINE_LIBRARY
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| 50 | # include "readline.h"
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| 51 | #else
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| 52 | # include <readline/readline.h>
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| 53 | #endif
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| 54 |
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| 55 | /* This little examples demonstrates the alternate interface to using readline.
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| 56 | * In the alternate interface, the user maintains control over program flow and
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| 57 | * only calls readline when STDIN is readable. Using the alternate interface,
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| 58 | * you can do anything else while still using readline (like talking to a
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| 59 | * network or another program) without blocking.
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| 60 | *
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| 61 | * Specifically, this program highlights two importants features of the
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| 62 | * alternate interface. The first is the ability to interactively change the
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| 63 | * prompt, which can't be done using the regular interface since rl_prompt is
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| 64 | * read-only.
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| 65 | *
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| 66 | * The second feature really highlights a subtle point when using the alternate
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| 67 | * interface. That is, readline will not alter the terminal when inside your
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| 68 | * callback handler. So let's so, your callback executes a user command that
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| 69 | * takes a non-trivial amount of time to complete (seconds). While your
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| 70 | * executing the command, the user continues to type keystrokes and expects them
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| 71 | * to be re-echoed on the new prompt when it returns. Unfortunately, the default
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| 72 | * terminal configuration doesn't do this. After the prompt returns, the user
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| 73 | * must hit one additional keystroke and then will see all of his previous
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| 74 | * keystrokes. To illustrate this, compile and run this program. Type "sleep" at
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| 75 | * the prompt and then type "bar" before the prompt returns (you have 3
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| 76 | * seconds). Notice how "bar" is re-echoed on the prompt after the prompt
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| 77 | * returns? This is what you expect to happen. Now comment out the 4 lines below
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| 78 | * the line that says COMMENT LINE BELOW. Recompile and rerun the program and do
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| 79 | * the same thing. When the prompt returns, you should not see "bar". Now type
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| 80 | * "f", see how "barf" magically appears? This behavior is un-expected and not
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| 81 | * desired.
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| 82 | */
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| 83 |
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| 84 | void process_line(char *line);
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| 85 | int change_prompt(void);
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| 86 | char *get_prompt(void);
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| 87 |
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| 88 | int prompt = 1;
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| 89 | char prompt_buf[40], line_buf[256];
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| 90 | tcflag_t old_lflag;
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| 91 | cc_t old_vtime;
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| 92 | struct termios term;
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| 93 |
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| 94 | int
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| 95 | main()
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| 96 | {
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| 97 | fd_set fds;
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| 98 |
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| 99 | /* Adjust the terminal slightly before the handler is installed. Disable
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| 100 | * canonical mode processing and set the input character time flag to be
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| 101 | * non-blocking.
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| 102 | */
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| 103 | if( tcgetattr(STDIN_FILENO, &term) < 0 ) {
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| 104 | perror("tcgetattr");
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| 105 | exit(1);
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| 106 | }
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| 107 | old_lflag = term.c_lflag;
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| 108 | old_vtime = term.c_cc[VTIME];
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| 109 | term.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;
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| 110 | term.c_cc[VTIME] = 1;
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| 111 | /* COMMENT LINE BELOW - see above */
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| 112 | if( tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &term) < 0 ) {
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| 113 | perror("tcsetattr");
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| 114 | exit(1);
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| 115 | }
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| 116 |
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| 117 | rl_add_defun("change-prompt", change_prompt, CTRL('t'));
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| 118 | rl_callback_handler_install(get_prompt(), process_line);
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| 119 |
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| 120 | while(1) {
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| 121 | FD_ZERO(&fds);
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| 122 | FD_SET(fileno(stdin), &fds);
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| 123 |
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| 124 | if( select(FD_SETSIZE, &fds, NULL, NULL, NULL) < 0) {
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| 125 | perror("select");
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| 126 | exit(1);
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| 127 | }
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| 128 |
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| 129 | if( FD_ISSET(fileno(stdin), &fds) ) {
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| 130 | rl_callback_read_char();
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| 131 | }
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| 132 | }
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| 133 | }
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| 134 |
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| 135 | void
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| 136 | process_line(char *line)
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| 137 | {
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| 138 | if( line == NULL ) {
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| 139 | fprintf(stderr, "\n", line);
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| 140 |
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| 141 | /* reset the old terminal setting before exiting */
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| 142 | term.c_lflag = old_lflag;
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| 143 | term.c_cc[VTIME] = old_vtime;
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| 144 | if( tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &term) < 0 ) {
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| 145 | perror("tcsetattr");
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| 146 | exit(1);
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| 147 | }
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| 148 | exit(0);
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| 149 | }
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| 150 |
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| 151 | if( strcmp(line, "sleep") == 0 ) {
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| 152 | sleep(3);
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| 153 | } else {
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| 154 | fprintf(stderr, "|%s|\n", line);
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| 155 | }
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| 156 |
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| 157 | free (line);
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| 158 | }
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| 159 |
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| 160 | int
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| 161 | change_prompt(void)
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| 162 | {
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| 163 | /* toggle the prompt variable */
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| 164 | prompt = !prompt;
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| 165 |
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| 166 | /* save away the current contents of the line */
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| 167 | strcpy(line_buf, rl_line_buffer);
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| 168 |
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| 169 | /* install a new handler which will change the prompt and erase the current line */
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| 170 | rl_callback_handler_install(get_prompt(), process_line);
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| 171 |
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| 172 | /* insert the old text on the new line */
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| 173 | rl_insert_text(line_buf);
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| 174 |
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| 175 | /* redraw the current line - this is an undocumented function. It invokes the
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| 176 | * redraw-current-line command.
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| 177 | */
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| 178 | rl_refresh_line(0, 0);
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| 179 | }
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| 180 |
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| 181 | char *
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| 182 | get_prompt(void)
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| 183 | {
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| 184 | /* The prompts can even be different lengths! */
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| 185 | sprintf(prompt_buf, "%s",
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| 186 | prompt ? "Hit ctrl-t to toggle prompt> " : "Pretty cool huh?> ");
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| 187 | return prompt_buf;
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| 188 | }
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