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		motoboi on April 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Athame – Full vim for bash and readline To get deadline support on command-line programs that don't, one can use rlwrap. Ex: rlwrap openssl s_client -connect IMAP.google.com:993 rlwrap telnet google.com 443

voltagex_ on April 9, 2015 [–]

I guessed that rlwrap used an LD_PRELOAD trick but a cursory glance at the source shows that it's much more complex. Can anyone explain? This might be worthy of its own HN post.

tlb on April 9, 2015 | [–]

rlwrap just pipes terminal I/O through itself. It doesn't change anything about the child process except where stdin comes from.

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