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LAST MODIFICATION: "Sat May 8 14:05:41 1999 (joze)"
(C) 1998, 1999 by Johannes Zellner, <johannes@zellner.org>
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tclreadline -- gnu readline for tcl
Copyright (C) 1999 Johannes Zellner
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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tclreadline
1. Introduction
---------------
This directory contains the sources and documentation for tclreadline,
which builds a connection between tcl and the gnu readline.
The information here corresponds to release 0.7 (initial developers release).
2. Documentation
----------------
The tclreadline.n nroff man page in this release contains the reference
manual entries for tclreadline. If you only want to use tclreadline as
a tool for interactive script development, you don't have to read this
manual page at all. Simply change your .tclshrc according to the section 4.
3. Compiling and installing tclreadline
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This release will probably only build under UNIX (Linux).
Before trying to compile tclreadline you should do the following things:
(a) Make sure you have tcl 8.0 or higher. I've tested tclreadline
with tcl 8.0.3 and 8.0.4. tclreadline relies on a proper tcl
installation:
It uses the tclConfig.sh file, which should reside somewhere
in /usr/local/lib/ or /usr/local/lib/tcl8.0/...
(b) Make sure you have gnu readline 2.2 or higher.
tclreadline uses the gnu readline callback handler, which
wasn't implemented in early releases.
The usual ./configure; make; make install sequence should do the rest.
4. Using tclreadline for interactive tcl scripting.
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copy the sample.tclshrc to $HOME/.tclshrc. If you use another interpreter
like wish, you should copy the file sample.tclshrc to $HOME/.wishrc
(or whatever the manual page of your interpreter says.) If you have
installed tclreadline properly, you are just ready to start:
start your favorite interpreter. The tclreadlineSetup.tcl script
does the rest.