[m-dev.] for review: use readline in the browser

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-May-1999, Mark Anthony BROWN <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Use the same method of input for the browser as for the internal
> tracer.  Previously, the browser did input via the Mercury library
> and the internal tracer did input via readline (if available).  This
> did not work properly if files were redirected into stdin, which meant
> that test cases could not be written for the browser.

There's a similar problem with the input for interactive queries,
which is currently read in via term_io__read_term.

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