Auto complete and history in 'simplelocalsession' example

[ptrdtznr]

Hello,
I am pretty new to this lib, but I was missing an example of how to extend the simplelocalsession.cpp example with an auto-complete and a history. Is it even possible?! I would like to avoid the boost dependcy.

thanks in advance!

[daniele77]

Currently, CliFileSession session (used in the simplelocalsession.cpp example) does not need boost libraries but does not provide all the features (i.e., autocompletion, history, and -- in general -- everything that requires handling of keyboard "special" keys).

On the other hand, CliLocalTerminalSession (used in the complete.cpp example) provides all the features but does need boost libraries.

I'm currently working to remove boost dependencies from CliFileSession, too, but I'm having some issues with the concurrency model to adopt. I hope to release a new version soon.

[ptrdtznr]

Okay! If you check my fork https://github.com/ptrdtznr/cli is based on connorjak, who forked your repo. He was able to make it run, but somehow under Ubuntu it was not working. I have made few changes but a "ctrl-c" is not working proper.

[daniele77]

@ptrdtznr , on the master branch of the repository you can find the most updated library:

• it can use standalone asio or boost asio to provide remote sessions
• it does not depend on any third-party library if you don't need remote sessions
• copy and paste works, as usual, both on windows and linux.
  So, I can say that connorjak fork is obsolete, now and this issue can be closed.
  An official release is planned in a couple of weeks.