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The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive
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command line editing facilities, similar to those of the UNIX tcsh
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shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports
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recall of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file
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names or other tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of filenames.
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The internal functions which perform file-name completion and
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wild-card expansion are also available externally for optional use
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by programs.
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In addition, the library includes a path-searching module. This
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allows an application to provide completion and lookup of files
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located in UNIX style paths. Although not built into the line
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editor by default, it can easily be called from custom
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tab-completion callback functions. This was originally conceived
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for completing the names of executables and providing a way to look
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up their locations in the user's PATH environment variable, but it
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can easily be asked to look up and complete other types of files in
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any list of directories.
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Note that special care has been taken to allow the use of this
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library in threaded programs. |