[IPython-dev] pyreadline refactoring

[Jörgen Stenarson]

Hi,

I have started to work on a refactoring of pyreadline with the goal to 
untangle the class interactions that have made it difficult to reuse 
pyreadline in other circumstances than a shell on win32.

The basic idea is that it should be possible to call a readline object 
with keypress events containing (control, shift, meta, char, keyname)
where keyname is for special keys like space, f1, return etc.

The readline object would be responsible for keeping track of current 
prompt, line_buffer, cursor_position and selection_position. But the 
caller of the object will have to render the buffer.

I have also merged the callback branch I worked on a few months back.
The branch is at lp:~jorgen-stenarson/pyreadline/pyreadline-refactor

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions on how things should work please 
let me know.

/Jörgen