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author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Fri Jan 27 10:37:43 2023 +0100 (16 months ago)
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     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.