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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Jul 29 07:52:52 2022 +0100 (2022-07-29) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/rlwrap/description.txt Fri Jul 29 07:52:52 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 1.4 +Rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline 1.5 +library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command. 1.6 + 1.7 +I couldn't find anything like it when I needed it, so I wrote this one back 1.8 +in 1999. By now, there are (and, in hindsight, even then there were) a number 1.9 +of good readline wrappers around, like rlfe, distributed as part of the GNU 1.10 +readline library, and the amazing socat. 1.11 + 1.12 +You should consider using rlwrap especially when you need user-defined 1.13 +completion (by way of completion word lists) and persistent history, or if 1.14 +you want to program 'special effects' using the filter mechanism.