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A readline wrapper

18 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 6 stories, 12 comments · first 2016-08-19 · latest 2026-06-22

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    Rlwrap your CLI tools, dammit
    story by nvader · 2026-06-22 · 1 comment
  2. Remiss for not mentioning "rlwrap": https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap ...basically "readline in a can" that you can use to improve text input of other programs. I forget if it was RMS or ESR that really wanted to hold "readline" away…
    comment by ramses0 · 2024-06-26 · in Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
  3. …in standard linux repos to be amazing. Try it on ed: `rlwrap ed`. Package: rlwrap [...] Homepage: https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap Description-en: readline feature command line wrapper This package provides a small utility that uses the…
    comment by tpoacher · 2024-06-26 · in Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
  4. …nowadays but I haven't tried that and just noticed now when I wanted to share the rlwrap link. [1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by mhitza · 2023-10-08 · in Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator
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    Rlwrap: A Readline Wrapper
    story by jesprenj · 2023-08-13 · 7 comments
  6. …utility that uses the GNU Readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any command. https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by leetrout · 2022-11-29 · in Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline
  7. rlwrap [1] may be able to help [1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by jffry · 2022-04-12 · in -h –Help -help Help –? –?
  8. Dropping a link to `rlwrap` in case anyone is not familiar with it: https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap Note that I've never tried it myself with the mysql/mariadb CLI, but I have used it with other tools, and it's brilliant.
    comment by JonyEpsilon · 2021-11-10 · in We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
  9. …-s 2 {1})' You can also use it with rlwrap for browsing commandline history of arbitrary REPLs ( https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap/blob/fb60c9aa7579d6b68f2... )
    comment by vcdimension · 2021-09-18 · in Sysz – An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
  10. Have you experimented with something like rlwrap? https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by AlexCoventry · 2021-07-26 · in What's bad about Julia?
  11. > if you have to interact with something that has no readline See also https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by sedachv · 2021-03-28 · in Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)
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    rlwrap, a 'readline wrapper'
    story by gjvc · 2021-03-18 · 0 comments
  13. …much like other major languages in the way it does inline types (TypeScript, Go, C#, etc.). [0] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by eatonphil · 2020-10-25 · in Standard ML in 2020
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    Rlwrap: A Readline Wrapper
    story by mpweiher · 2019-04-15 · 1 comment
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    Rlwrap
    story by tosh · 2018-08-27 · 0 comments
  16. …with tools that don't support it natively (e.g. a repl for your newly written language). [0] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by riffraff · 2017-11-10 · in GNU Readline for Better Productivity on the Command Line
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    Rlwrap: A readline wrapper
    story by Pete_D · 2016-09-06 · 0 comments
  18. https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap EDIT: beat to the punch, should've refreshed.
    comment by Jtsummers · 2016-08-19 · in Show HN: Replify – Create a REPL for any command