Hi Erick,
Another fine command line editor is ledit by
daniel.de_rauglaudre_at_inria.fr for more info see
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/
Just FYI.
Erick Gallesio writes:
>
> This is the announce of cle-0.3 a small command line editor which can be
> useful when using STk in a n xterm. It provides the
> editing/history/completion of the GNU readline package to any
> line-oriented Unix command (and hence stk). To add editing commands to
> STk. Just type,
> $ cle stk
> et voila.
>
> You can download cle from kaolin.unice.fr and I have also place it on
> sunsite/metalab. Since this is the first release I'm not sure to its
> definitive place on sunsite.
>
> cle is far from perfect but I hope that you'll like it. Tell me what
> you think of this approach rather than integrating readline inside of
> STk as it was asked before here.
>
> Hereafter is the complete README of the package.
>
>
> CLE 0.3
>
> PURPOSE
> -------
>
> Cle is a Command Line Editor. It provides the editing/history/completion
> of the GNU readline package to any line-oriented Unix command.
> For instance,
>
> $ cle ftp foo.bar.org
>
> adds editing/history/completion commands to the ftp command.
>
> Since most modern shells allow you to define aliases, you can define
> a simple alias such as
> $ alias ftp="cle \ftp" (bash or zsh syntax)
> or
> $ alias ftp cle ftp (tcsh or csh syntax)
> to always uses cle with the ftp command.
>
> BUILD
> -----
>
> To build cle, run the following commands
>
> $ configure; make; make install
>
> configure accepts only one non-generic parameter: "--with-curses".
>
> Using this parameter allows to build the readline library with curses
> instead of termcap. A list of the generic configure parameters can be found
> in the INSTALL file.
>
> INITIALIZATION FILES
> --------------------
>
> Since cle uses the readline package, it can be customized by the file
> "~/.inputrc". When cle is run it initializes the readline package and
> gives it the name of the application it controls. This can be used to
> define different bindings for different commands. An example is given
> below:
>
> $if ftp
> "\C-xl": "dir\C-m"
> $endif
> $if stk
> "\C-xl": "(system \"ls -ls\")\C-m"
> $endif
> $if ed
> "\C-xl": "!ls -l\C-m"
> $endif
>
> See the file "etc/sample-inputrc" file for a more complete example.
> See also standard readline documentation package for details on the
> available "bindable" functions and on the format of this file.
>
> When a cle'ed application leaves, the state of the history is saved in
> a file whose name is ~/.XXX-history, where XXX is the name of the
> application. The history size defaults to 100 lines but it can be
> changed by the --size option of cle. See cle(1) for more details.
>
>
> PARENTHESIS FLASHING
> --------------------
>
> The readline version compiled with cle uses parentheses flashing
> (i.e when you type a closing parenthesis, the corresponding opening
> parenthesis flashes). Rebind the closing parentheses is with
> "self-insert" to get rid of this feature.
> Example:
> $if ftp
> ")": self-insert
> "]": self-insert
> "}": self-insert
> $end
>
> RELATED PACKAGES
> ----------------
>
> ILE and FEP are two similar packages which also provide command line
> editing. These packages don't seem to be maintained anymore and their
> command line editing functions are less extensive than those provided
> by the readline package.
>
> DISTRIBUTION
> ------------
>
> Cle is distributed under the terms of the GPL (see file COPYING for
> license terms) and is available from http://kaolin.unice.fr/Cle
>
>
> -- Erick
Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 00:49:49 CEST