[Request] Track prompt history

[natemoo-re]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be interesting if individual prompts tracked their own submission history

Describe the solution you'd like
This could be an option enabled via something like updateSettings({ history: { id: 'my-package' } }), which would then create and store global prompt history for open ended input prompts. Each of those would need a unique ID, and we'd need to key the history against the package version as well.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Is this even a good idea? We could not implement this! Which, tbh, is also perfectly valid.

Additional context
See discussion thar sparked this idea in #186

[lilnasy]

Is it to enable going back to a previous prompt while maintaining the originally submitted inputs?

[mdjastrzebski]

As an alternative, text prompt could provide history: string[] option, which would allow users to have greater control over available history (e.g. filtering out some entries).

I've tried to implement it myself in @clack/core:

  constructor(opts: TextOptions) {
    // ...

    const history = opts.history;
    if (history) {
      this.on("cursor", (key) => {
        switch (key) {
          case "up":
            this.historyIndex = Math.max(this.historyIndex - 1, 0);
            if (history[this.historyIndex]) {
              this.value = history[this.historyIndex];
              this._cursor = this.value.length;
            }
            break;
          case "down":
            this.historyIndex = Math.min(this.historyIndex + 1, history.length);
            this.value = history[this.historyIndex] ?? "";
            this._cursor = this.value.length;
            break;
        }
      });
  }
}

However, when pressing Enter, TextPrompt would ignore this.value I've set in the cursor event and use this.value = this.rl?.line.replace(/\t/g, ''); from prompt.ts. When I would disable track option I've lost ability to display text. 🤷‍♂️