The tclreadline package makes the GNU readline facilities available for interactive Tcl shells. This includes history expansion and file/command completion. Command and subcommand completion is provided for all Tcl/Tk commands. Command completion can be easily added for user-defined commands.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries Tcl Extensions |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Implementation | Tcl |
Recent releases


Changes: Optional support for statically linked binaries tclshrl and wishrl.


Changes: Small changes were made so that it completes itcl class configurations properly. The build process now uses automake/libtool. The site and the CVS repository were moved to Sourceforge so that the repository can be accessed by anonymous CVS.


Changes: A new BSD-type license, and a new read-only variable `license' in the tclreadline namespace.


Changes: The code was cleaned up. Verification that it compiles with tcl8.3 was also performed.


Changes: The script completer was mostly rewritten, and greatly extended, almost all tcl and tk commands are completed, fallback completers for unknown commands added, readline's macro processing should work now, and tclreadline::Loop takes an optional <historyfile>.