Hi, Van Snyder wrote: > Years ago, I knew the name of the routines one could use to have some stdin > history and be able to edit it, like you can do in XTerm or gnuplot or ....
Sounds like readline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/readline An alternative with BSD license is libedit: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libedit Have a nice day :) Thomas