Can rlwrap use a wrapped command's own TAB completion?

Question

I want to use rlwrap with a custom erlang repl.

It works perfectly if I run it as \"rlwrap -a myrepl\".

The problem is that myrepl has builtin tab completion

Answer 1

Rlwrap is cute. But in Erlang, it only offers persistent history while breaking erl's tab completion.

The fundamental issue is Erlang's erl REPL is just old and busted, and doesn't follow normal *nix conventions. Furthermore, they refuse to fix it because of fear of random, grouchy sysadmins whom can't accept any changes. No amount of rlwrap "duct-tape" hacks can fix a poor UX REPL.

It would be better (though significantly more work) to write a REPL from scratch like pry/ipython/etc. that does configurable color, tab completion, persistent history, paging, CLI observer, plugins, etc.

Rlwrap shines on programs with primitive shells.