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Linenoise. A lightweight text input tool that makes command-line programs feel responsive and easy to use.

github.com/antirez/linenoise

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Updates

May 2026

Add bracketed paste folding May 2

April 2026

Add test for ANSI CSI escape sequences in the prompt. Apr 21
Treat ANSI CSI escape sequences as zero-width in utf8StrWidth(). Apr 21

February 2026

Fix tab handling when no completion is available. Feb 14
Fix ARM unsigned char warning. Feb 14

January 2026

Document test suite in README Jan 7
Fix VT100 emulator orphaned continuation cell bug Jan 7
Reduce test terminal size from 80x24 to 60x15 Jan 7
Rename linenoise_example to linenoise-example Jan 7
Add test framework with VT100 terminal emulator Jan 7
Add UTF-8 and grapheme cluster support Jan 7

November 2025

Merge pull request #245 from matthewnourse/make-linenoiseEditFeed-han… Nov 27
Fit coding style guidelines Nov 27
Multiplexing: if lineNoiseEditFeed is called when there are no bytes … Nov 27

September 2025

Merge pull request #240 from gtwilliams/patch-1 Sep 10
Fix CVE-2025-9810 Sep 10

February 2024

Merge pull request #221 from 9Ajiang/master Feb 23
advance enableRawMode() before getColumns() Feb 23

March 2023

Multiplexing: documentation improved. Mar 27
Multiplexing: README updated. Mar 27