** attributes **

   website:   [http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/%|%utopia.knoware.nl%|%]

** Summary **

'''rlwrap''', a wrapper for  GNU [readline]. can be used with an [Interactive
Tcl%|%interactive Tcl%|%] to provide readline editing and command history functionality.

** Description **

To use it with tclsh, start tclsh with:

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rlwrap tclsh
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Useful options are `-c` (file name completion) and `-f` (add words from a file
to the completion list).

To use rlwrap with tclsh with file name completion type:

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rlwrap -c tclsh
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It would be nice to have a file of all words used in Tcl: commands and
subcommands to set rlwrap up using the -f option.

[info commands] and [info procs] could help with that. Maybe there are some
*.syn files out there to provide such a database.
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[RS] 2013-11-01: For more convenience, you can put
 alias tclsh='rlwrap -c tclsh8.5'
in your .bashrc or a similar startup file. On Ubuntu, rlwrap can be fetched with apt-get install.
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[fr] 2016-12-20: For vi editor mode add 2 lines to ~.inputrc or /etc/inputrc


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set editor-mode vi
set keymap vi
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