From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 14 14:45:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A97014BD7 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05633 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:44:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:44:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199909142144.XAA05633@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current] Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Parag Patel wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:39:34 BST, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > >It gets complicated very quickly. > > Oh I agree - but I still think it should only need to be in one place > rather than in a library or in each individual app. It _is_ in one place if it's in a library. And personally I think that's exatly where it belongs. Does libedit ring a bell...? > Wouldn't you like to see your custom zsh-style bindings and prompts > inside gdb, for instance? How about ftp? pgsql? That's exactly what libedit could be used for (although it could need a few technical improvements, IMO, but the basic concept is there). Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message