Readline

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 page	http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-4.3.tar.gz
Source information	http://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

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-readline@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu>
Developers	Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu>

Related information

Interfaces	library
Programs	rl.c
Source languages	C

Entry information

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

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