in reply to Implementation of Readline

I've read your description through 3 times, but it is still not clear to me what your problem is, or how we can help you.

There is nothing wrong with the words you've posted, they are very clear, but they do not allow me to begin to guess what your code looks like. But then, why should I need to guess?

Maybe if you posted your current code and demonstrated what output it is giving you now, we might be able to see how to modify it to produce the output you told us you want.

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