Tet's Journal: rlwrap and the benefits of an open plan office

So we were sitting around at work yesterday, and one of my orkers of bovines asked if anyone could remember the name of the utility that allowed a non-readline enabled application to use readline. I'd never heard of such a thing, but one of the other developers piped up: rlwrap. Wow. What an amazingly useful little app. There's something to be said for working in the same office as the rest of your team. What you lose out in terms of privacy and quiet coding time, you more than make up in terms of information exchange.