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Bug#720463: ITP: jline2 -- console input handling library



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza" <eugeniocanom@gmail.com>

* Package name    : jline2
  Version:               2.11
  Upstream Author:  The jline2 team and contributors
* URL:         http://jline.github.io/jline2/index.html
* License:           BSD-3-clause
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : console input handling library

   JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar in
   functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline. People familiar with the
   readline/editline capabilities for modern shells (such as bash and tcsh)
   will find most of the command editing features of JLine to be familiar.
   .
   Jline2 suppors the current features:
   .
    * Command history - Lines that have been previously entered may be recalled
    and edited and can be persisted so that they are available across sessions
    of your program.
    * Line editing - JLine allows full editing of the current command line and
    attempts to mimic as much of the behavior of GNU Readline as possible,
    including support for both emacs and vi key mappings.
    * Completion - JLine provides a pluggable mechanism for implementing
    command line tab completion (of course completion can be bound to any key
    you wish).
    * Custom Key bindings - Keys may be arbitrarily remapped to perform a
    specific action, and JLine attempts to honor any mapping that is set in
    your existing readline .inputrc file.
    * Character Masking - Input may be gathered from the user without any
    visual feedback. This is useful for prompting for passwords.
    * 99.99% Java - The vast portion of JLine is all Java, using only some
    small bit of native code, provided by the Jansi project, to support
    Windows.


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