I’ve really only used mxmlc when compiling AS3 only projects, and decided to look into fcsh. While it’s great, and does make compiling incremental edits much faster, it’s a complete pain in the ass.
It doesn’t behave like a normal command line interface as you’d expect, like the interactive mysql daemon for example. However, this is a great little to rectify that issue, called rlwrap.
I installed rlwrap using Darwin Ports. Once you have it installed, you can issue ‘rlwrap ./fcsh’ to the command line. I’m not exactly how it works, but apparently it acts as a wrapper to all command line applications making them function like the normal bash command line. Arrow + UP works a treat for example, to pull up your most recent command.
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