Alastair Reid writes:

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It would be nice to have those bindings but just having backspace and left-right cursors work would already be a huge improvement over nothing.

OK, here is my contribution. The attached module SimpleLineEditor is API-compatible with readline, and is a slight elaboration of the line editor currently distributed as part of hmake interactive.

It seems to behave strangely here: I can delete the prompt, and if I move the cursor to the left and delete some characters, the characters to the right of the cursor don't move. Also, the backspace key doesn't work, although C-Backspace does work (backspace works fine with readline). This is in an xterm; in a cygwin shell window different strange things happen. Cheers, Simon