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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 18:46:05
Message-Id: pdv40p$7hr$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] What was it....? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 2018-05-21, tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > I know there was a tool/trick/hack to accomplish the following:
4 > One could do "X" (this is for what I am asking for and cannot remember
5 > its name...) -- I think it was a wrapper script or so -- to call
6 > another console application like picocom to act as it would be
7 > readline-enable (command history and such) despite the fact it does not.
8 >
9 > What was it?
10
11 Googling https://www.google.com/search?q=readline+wrapper+application
12 suggests rlwrap:
13
14 https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-rlwrap/
15 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/rlwrap
16
17 --
18 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I didn't order any
19 at WOO-WOO ... Maybe a YUBBA
20 gmail.com ... But no WOO-WOO!

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....? Jonathan Callen <jcallen@g.o>