[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....?

[Jonathan Callen]

On 05/21/2018 02:43 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-05-21, tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
>
>> I know there was a tool/trick/hack to accomplish the following:
>> One could do "X" (this is for what I am asking for and cannot remember
>> its name...) -- I think it was a wrapper script or so -- to call
>> another console application like picocom to act as it would be
>> readline-enable (command history and such)  despite the fact it does not.
>>
>> What was it?
>
> Googling https://www.google.com/search?q=readline+wrapper+application
> suggests rlwrap:
>
> https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-rlwrap/
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/rlwrap
>

Additionally, rlfe (readline front end) is included with
sys-libs/readline[utils] and does about the same thing.

-- 
Jonathan Callen