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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:33:51 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, brian@FreeBSD.org, imp@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: libedit replacement for libreadline
Message-ID:  <20010716103351.A81876@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20010716013127.A16058@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:31:27AM -0700
References:  <20010716013127.A16058@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:31:27AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> I've just finished syncing up our libedit to the version in NetBSD,
> which includes a number of bugfixes, but perhaps more interestingly it
> can function as a drop-in (apparently binary compatible) replacement
> for GNU libreadline (unfortunately it's not binary compatible with our
> present libedit).

It doesn't actually impliment all of libreadline - just it's most
common uses. Last time I checked libedit couldn't emulate readline's
callback mode. I looked at implimenting the callback stuff, but it
would be really hard to do properly 'cos of how libedit is structured.
(In the end I hacked something together, but it's really ugly.)

	David.

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