wok annotate rlwrap/description.txt @ rev 25503
f3: include extra programs
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Fri Jan 27 10:37:43 2023 +0100 (16 months ago) |
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| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 1 Rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper', a small utility that uses the GNU Readline |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 2 library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command. |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 3 |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 4 I couldn't find anything like it when I needed it, so I wrote this one back |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 5 in 1999. By now, there are (and, in hindsight, even then there were) a number |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 6 of good readline wrappers around, like rlfe, distributed as part of the GNU |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 7 readline library, and the amazing socat. |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 8 |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 9 You should consider using rlwrap especially when you need user-defined |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 10 completion (by way of completion word lists) and persistent history, or if |
| Hans-G?nter@25282 | 11 you want to program 'special effects' using the filter mechanism. |