haskeline

A command-line interface for user input, written in Haskell.

Version on this page:	0.7.4.2
LTS Haskell 24.28:	0.8.2.1
Stackage Nightly 2026-01-17:	0.8.2.1
Latest on Hackage:	0.8.4.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Judah Jacobson

Maintained by Judah Jacobson

This version can be pinned in stack with:haskeline-0.7.4.2@sha256:44b098f4a445f073140c5440156533cfc5f604d97ee9ffe8b41c98d72cd97a0f,4872

Module documentation for 0.7.4.2

System
- System.Console
  - System.Console.Haskeline

Depends on 10 packages(full list with versions):

base, bytestring, containers, directory, filepath, process, stm, terminfo, transformers, unix

Used by 12 packages in lts-9.21(full list with versions):

Agda, clash-ghc, darcs, DAV, hledger, idris, intero, marvin, repline, text-show-instances, tttool, wizards

Haskeline provides a user interface for line input in command-line programs. This library is similar in purpose to readline, but since it is written in Haskell it is (hopefully) more easily used in other Haskell programs.

Haskeline runs both on POSIX-compatible systems and on Windows.