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For example, on OS X the "readline" module doesn't compile out of the box.
Planet Python 2009
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The user interface for my system is basically GNU readline, a really nice, featureful way of working with lines of text so perfect for improvising line-based textual rhythms.
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The user interface for my system is basically GNU readline, a really nice, featureful way of working with lines of text so perfect for improvising line-based textual rhythms.
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This is a 'readline wrapper' that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command
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Also, since it is a wrapper, it means it's equivalent in spirit to rlwrap, which uses the real gnu readline, keeping the interface identical to other programs that already use readline natively. rlwrap is written in C, and thus clearly preferable for reasons I've already mentioned.
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# Basic packages yast2 - i mc yast2 - i findutils readline libgcc glibc-devel findutils-locate gcc flex lynx compat-readline4 db-devel wget gcc-c++ subversion make vim telnet cron iptables iputils man man-pages nano pico
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Term:: Readline, which will do the heavy lifting of handling readline capabilities, and namespace:: clean which will let me clear out any helper functions I import from my classes so I can inherit methods of the same name without breaking anything.
Planet Perl 2010
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When building MySQL when using a different target directory (for example using the VPATH environment variable), the build of the embedded readline component would fail.
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For that try Linenoise: A minimal, zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement in 300+ lines of C by the author of Redis
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Nice work, but it's missing the best feature of readline: Ctrl-r, reverse history search!
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