[Ecls-list] Wish list

[Edi Weitz]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:44:21 +0100, "Goffioul Michael" <goffioul at imec.be> wrote:

>> > + A READLINE-like interface for the command line. Maybe based on
>> > FreeBSD/NetBSD's replacement for libreadline.
>> 
>> This will largely be irrelevant to most people IMO if we have swank
>> working on ECL. Slime has the additional advantage that you can
>> connect to your deployed lisp application and check what's going on.
>
> For me, a readline-line interface would be very appreciated. We use
> ECL on command-line a lot while prototyping our framework. During
> that phase, a readline interface would makes things easier.

Have you tried rlwrap?  See <http://weitz.de/completions.html>.

Cheers,
Edi.