[gembud] Arrow keys with GEMPAK

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  • Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 15:37:53 -0400
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Hi gembud folks,
Since it isn't clear to me if/when the Unidata GEMPAK repository will be updated, I took the liberty of creating a fork that includes a few bug fixes and one new feature.  I added GNU Readline support to the GEMPAK prompt (Linux only), so that you can indeed now use the arrow keys (and other shortcuts like Ctrl-a, etc.,) to your heart's content. 

You can checkout my 'develop' branch if you are interested:
https://github.com/sgdecker/gempak/tree/develop
I don't anticipate making any further changes myself, but would certainly entertain pull requests.  Note that the way I added Readline support probably broke the build for anything but gfortran on Linux.
I have been testing this branch (in a very loose sense of the word test) over the last few weeks, and it seems OK, but I should probably be clear: Use at your own risk! 

Sincerely,
Steve

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