Re: TCLSH: Using keyboard navigation
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Re: TCLSH: Using keyboard navigation

From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 08:46:29 CET



Matt Newman <matt.neuman@gmail.com> wrote:


> Also way back when there was a program called FEP (front-end-processor)


> that would front-end any line-oriented program to provide the


> readline-type capabilities - but again, unless someone else is aware of


> a successor, I think that too has long since rotted away...



There are a couple of possible successors:


 "cle" and "rlwrap"  are those, I happen to know by name.



You then call: 


 rlwrap tclsh


and have editable history.


With further options (to rlwrap), you can even


provide files that contain sets of tab-expansible


words.


Received on Fri Dec 23 19:00:38 2005