From 06fa1784c1a580b38f8f9650787a54182d187bea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harper Andrews <10224994+ItsHarper@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 15:20:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that `input`'s history feature uses reedline (#16334)

Follow up to this commit @sholderbach made on my PR #16329:
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/16329/commits/f21350ec88a2f538f9ddc55bf464b5132c9634d6#diff-5cab4dac5ced236548db9fbf6cd0e9d250ba12317bb916ec26603054ce9144a7
---
 crates/nu-command/src/platform/input/input_.rs | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/input/input_.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/input/input_.rs
index 1f5956792f..b855a997bb 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/input/input_.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/input/input_.rs
@@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ impl Command for Input {
             .named(
                 "history-file",
                 SyntaxShape::Filepath,
-                "Path to a file to read and write command history. This is a text file and will be created if it doesn't exist. Will be used as the selection list.",
+                "Path to a file to read and write command history. This is a text file and will be created if it doesn't exist. Will be used as the selection list. Implies `--reedline`.",
                 None,
             )
             .named(
                 "max-history",
                 SyntaxShape::Int,
-                "The maximum number of entries to keep in the history, defaults to $env.config.history.max_size.",
+                "The maximum number of entries to keep in the history, defaults to $env.config.history.max_size. Implies `--reedline`.",
                 None,
             )
             .switch("suppress-output", "don't print keystroke values", Some('s'))
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ impl Command for Input {
             },
             Example {
                 description: "Get input from the user with history backed by a file, and assign to a variable",
-                example: "let user_input = (input --history-file ./history.txt)",
+                example: "let user_input = (input --reedline --history-file ./history.txt)",
                 result: None,
             },
         ]