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<title>
-Avoiding the console window</title>
+Interacting with the terminal</title>
<para>By default GHC builds applications that open a console window when they start.
If you want to build a GUI-only application, with no console window, use the flag
<literal>-optl-mwindows</literal> in the link step.
</para>
+
+<para>For some reason, Mingw ships with the <literal>readline</literal> library,
+but not with the <literal>readline</literal> headers. As a result, GHC (like Hugs) does not
+use <literal>readline</literal> for interactive input on Windows.
+You can get a close simulation by using an emacs shell buffer!
+</para>
+
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