haskeline

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

Version on this page:	0.8.2.1
LTS Haskell 24.16:	0.8.2.1
Stackage Nightly 2025-10-24:	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-0.8.2.1@sha256:23369899343e5d60fe45263367126ca6bf20e3edc019b53285ef6d020665493a,5827

Module documentation for 0.8.2.1

System
- System.Console
  - System.Console.Haskeline

Depends on 12 packages(full list with versions):

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

Used by 11 packages in nightly-2025-10-24(full list with versions):

Agda, breakpoint, DAV, dhall, haskeline, hledger, repline, simple-prompt, text-show-instances, wizards, ws

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.