Re: Command line wrappers?
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:50:13PM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote:
> Free-BSD seems to have two very useful and equivalent programs,
> called "fep" and "ile", to wrap emacs-style or vi-style command-line
> editing and tcsh-style history mechanisms around any command-line driven
> program. You use them on the command line like
>
> <fep or ile> <interactive-command>
>
> in order to interact comfortably with the <interactive-program>. Neither
> of the original programs compile under Linux because they seem to use a
> different terminal control mechanism. Does anyone know of a port of these
> programs to Linux or of some equivalent program for Linux?
There's the cle package:
Package: cle
Version: 0.4-1
Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/cle_0.4-1.deb
Description: Wrap any command-line driven tool with readline
This handy tool lets you use history and line-editing in any text oriented
tool. This is especially usefully with third-party commercial tools that
cannot be modified to use readline themselves. It's not perfect but it works
pretty well.
Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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