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@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ history is remembered across invocations, separately for each command;
history completion and search work as in bash and completion word
lists can be specified on the command line.
-You will need to create the ~/.rlwrap directory (or wherever RLWRAP_HOME is
-set to) or rlwrap will complain and exit.
+If you wish to have history and completion files kept somewhere other
+than $HOME, you will need to set RLWRAP_HOME to the desired path and
+rlwrap will create it so long as all its parent directories exist.