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Readline - Lets users edit command lines as they are typed in

The Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.3.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/
Version 4.3 (stable) released on 2002-07-17
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User and programmer's manuals included in the distribution; user manual available in HTML format from http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html; user manual available from http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html
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Bug List<bug-readline@gnu.org>

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Interfaceslibrary
Programsrl.c
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-04
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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