Command line wrappers?

["Jorge L. deLyra" <delyra@latt.if.usp.br>]

Hi,

	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?

							Cheers,

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