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bryanpedini 296c77e319 feat(prompt): readline line editing with per-session history
When stdin is a terminal the prompt is read with bash's readline,
`IFS= read -e -r -p '> ' REPLY`, so the arrow keys no longer print escape
garbage: Left/Right, Home/End, Ctrl-A/E, Backspace/Delete edit the line,
and Up/Down walk the lines entered in this session (`history -s` for every
line with a non-blank character; empty lines are not recorded). Down past
the newest entry restores the line typed before Up, and Up at the oldest
entry or Down on the new line ring the bell, as readline does by default.
The Nx y/N answer is read the same way and never recorded.

Nothing persists: HISTFILE is unset at startup and the history is never
read or written. Verified on bash 4.3.48 and 5.2.15 that `read -e` and
`history -s` share one history list in a non-interactive shell, that
inherited HISTSIZE/HISTCONTROL/HISTIGNORE have no effect there, and that
Ctrl-C at the prompt restores the terminal. readline draws the prompt on
stderr, as bash does. Piped stdin keeps the plain `read -r` exactly,
including the echo of each line and EOF => exit 2.

New unit tests (tests/unit/lineedit.bats) drive a real pty with script(1):
history recall, the bell at both ends, the stashed line, Left-arrow
editing, the y/N answer kept out of the history, no history file under
HOME/TMPDIR, ^D => exit 2. The E2E suite gets a pty smoke test (Up
recalls 1?), skipped where the image has no script(1).
2026-10-10 14:01:38 +02:00