Gnu Readline. Jul 10 2019 Some platforms such as macOS do not ship with GNU readline installed. Nov 10 2017 GNU Readline provides some great tools to move the cursor around manage a kill ring and more.
If that variable is unset the default is inputrc. Sep 02 2016 A powerful readline library in Linux macOS Windows Solaris. Sudo apt-get install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev The package libreadline is for running applications using readline command and the package libreadline-dev is for compiling and building readline application.
This means that if you want to use Readline in a program that you release or distribute to anyone the program must be free software and have a GPL-compatible license.
This means that if you want to use Readline in a program that you release or distribute to anyone the program must be free software and have a GPL-compatible license. If you have any questions please submit a github issue and any pull requests is welcomed. Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization file the inputrc file. It can serve as a drop in replacement for the inbuilt ConsoleReadLine and brings along with it some of the terminal goodness you get from unix shells like command history navigation and tab auto completion.
