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JLine

Introduction

JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar in functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline but with additional features that bring it in par with ZSH line editor.

People familiar with the readline/editline capabilities for modern shells (such as bash, tcsh or zsh) will find most of the command editing features of JLine to be familiar.

Brief history

JLine was created by Marc Prud’hommeaux in 2002.

JLine 2 was started by Jason Dillon in 2009 as an evolution of JLine 1.

JLine 3 was started by Guillaume Nodet in 2015 as an evolution of JLine 2.

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