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| author | Roberto Metere <roberto@metere.it> | 2016-11-03 07:00:52 +0700 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2016-11-03 07:00:52 +0700 |
| commit | 9e3be77df9ddaf0c9fda34d70e2e22744bf22ca6 (patch) | |
| tree | c386d0e055a468ceffec46a668d5dc6c62660313 /libraries/libtecla/README | |
| parent | a1725d837efe0e8e089493c0958508964e1e581d (diff) | |
libraries/libtecla: Added (interactive command line editing).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/libraries/libtecla/README b/libraries/libtecla/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..861f45758bae8 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libtecla/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive +command line editing facilities, similar to those of the UNIX tcsh +shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports +recall of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file +names or other tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of filenames. +The internal functions which perform file-name completion and +wild-card expansion are also available externally for optional use +by programs. + +In addition, the library includes a path-searching module. This +allows an application to provide completion and lookup of files +located in UNIX style paths. Although not built into the line +editor by default, it can easily be called from custom +tab-completion callback functions. This was originally conceived +for completing the names of executables and providing a way to look +up their locations in the user's PATH environment variable, but it +can easily be asked to look up and complete other types of files in +any list of directories. + +Note that special care has been taken to allow the use of this +library in threaded programs.
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