There are readline wrappers such as rlwrap ( http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rlwrap.1.html http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rlwrap.1.html ), which may

There are readline wrappers such as rlwrap ( http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rlwrap.1.html http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rlwrap.1.html ), which may be handy for other stuff. Bray does add "Don’t do that though, get yourself some IDE help."