TODO: Ideas for how to use editline in an event loop

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Issues in need of work. Mostly compatibility with GNU readline, BSD
[libedit], and usability improvements.
[libedit][], and usability improvements.
Remember, the general idea is to keep this library editline small with
no external dependencies, except a C library.
Add support for running in an event loop
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To be able to use libeditline from within an event loop like [libuEv][]
there are few things to do:
- Refactor `editinput()` and `readline()`. Break out the active code
used for set up and teardown, and the character input logic
- Add bare necessities for external callbacks so that an event loop
that monitors `el_infd` has something to call on events
- GNU Readline has its [alternate interface][gnu] which we should
probably implement
Example usecase of the GNU alternate interface can be found here:
http://www.mcld.co.uk/blog/blog.php?274
Verify custom completion handlers
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
[gnu]: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/readline/rlman_41.html#IDX288
[libuEv]: https://github.com/troglobit/libuev/
[libedit]: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/