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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 11:28:36 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        "Brandon S. Allbery  KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: libedit / readline
Message-ID:  <20030510092836.GA373@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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# allbery@ece.cmu.edu / 2003-04-20 13:30:41 -0400:
> On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:28, Alex Kiesel wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 19:15, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > What I'd like to know is this: if libedit is meant to be a drop-in
> > > replacement for readline, why doesn't it export readline()?
> > 
> > Is it really? Hm, readline is in the base system. Why don't you link
> > against it?
> 
> editline() is intended to be a replacement for readline(), but not a
> drop-in replacement; or at least that's been my understanding of it.

    Let me repeat my question: *why* is readline() left out of libedit?

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