REPL history search does not accept certain input

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
cli, developer-experience

Research direction

Look for the console or REPL implementation, likely in a file handling command-line input. Find the history search function and examine how it processes keystrokes and matches against history. For the uppercase issue, modify the input handling to either lowercase search terms or correctly interpret shift+letter. For the regex issue, replace the .match method with .indexOf for simple string matching. Test the changes by running the REPL and verifying history search works with uppercase letters and plain text.

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Description

2 console related issues:

  • The history search does not write upper case letters, can be solved in two ways: lowercase the search terms, or parse the shift+letter combinations
  • The history search tries to parse regexes, will be solved by replacing .match with .indexOf
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