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This app is crying out for readline support and command completion!

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I'd take the next logical step: integrate it with a shell, much like zsh's zftp module does for FTP sessions.

I may have to write this now.

Please let HN know if you do in fact do this, as it would no doubt be beneficial to a good percentage.

I'm interested to see where you go with this. Thanks in advance for contributing.

rlwrap http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/

This is interesting, but I'm curious: what do people think are the advantages or disadvantages of using this instead of Ruby's own readline support?

(My first thought: rlwrap already exists. Add one point. A disadvantage is that rlwrap makes the readline support depend on an external, third-party program which would need to be installed separately. Subtract one?)

I agree. Minimizing external dependencies (with a particular focus on the OS X experience) was a guiding principle of the project.

I will probably use Ruby Readline (http://bogojoker.com/readline) to implement this. Another planned feature will likely require using Curses. It would be nice to reduce these two dependencies to one, but I'm not sure I'll start by reimplementing Ruby Readline in Curses.

rlwrap is useful, but it lacks command tab completion.

Typing

http://www.google.com>; co[tab]-a

is much easier than typing

http://www.google.com>; cookies-a

rlwrap can do completion, given a little setting-up: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/rlwrap.html

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