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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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  1. 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…
  2. …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…
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. rlwrap [1] may be able to help [1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by jffry · 2022-04-12 · in -h –Help -help Help –? –?
  6. 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.
  7. …-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
  8. Have you experimented with something like rlwrap? https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
    comment by AlexCoventry · 2021-07-26 · in What's bad about Julia?
  9. > if you have to interact with something that has no readline See also https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
  10. …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
  11. …with tools that don't support it natively (e.g. a repl for your newly written language). [0] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
  12. https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap EDIT: beat to the punch, should've refreshed.