readline: give the possibility to ignore the empty line in the history (#13452)

cmd/tools/vrepl.v

@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ enum FnType {
 
 fn new_repl() Repl {
 	return Repl{
-		readline: readline.Readline{}
+		readline: readline.Readline{
+			skip_empty: true
+		}
 		modules: ['os', 'time', 'math']
 		vstartup_lines: os.read_file(vstartup) or { '' }.trim_right('\n\r').split_into_lines()
 		// Test file used to check if a function as a void return or a

vlib/readline/readline.v

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ mut:
 	prompt            string
 	prompt_offset     int
 	previous_lines    [][]rune
+	skip_empty        bool // skip the empty lines when calling .history_previous()
 	search_index      int
 	is_tty            bool
 }

vlib/readline/readline_linux.c.v

@@ -551,10 +551,15 @@ fn (mut r Readline) history_previous() {
 		r.previous_lines[0] = r.current
 	}
 	r.search_index++
-	r.current = r.previous_lines[r.search_index]
+	prev_line := r.previous_lines[r.search_index]
+	if r.skip_empty && prev_line == [] {
+		r.history_previous()
+	} else {
+		r.current = prev_line
 		r.cursor = r.current.len
 		r.refresh_line()
 	}
+}
 
 // history_next sets current line to the content of the next line in the history buffer.
 fn (mut r Readline) history_next() {