[armedbear-devel] regarding ticket #87: input history for REPL

John Pallister john at synchromesh.com
Wed Mar 3 13:15:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
> Ville Voutilainen writes:
>
>> We don't necessarily need to use jline for this, there's an utility
>> called rlwrap that provides
>> GNU Readline functionality for the wrapped application. I'm not sure
>> about the availablity
>> of rlwrap on windows, though.
>
> I wouldn't have thought that rlwrap works on Java programs; still JLine
> would probably also allow for tab completion.
>
>  -T.

rlwrap is available on Windows via Cygwin, FWIW. Since it wraps the
GNU readline library I wouldn't expect to find a "native" version...

Cheers,

John :^P
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