From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 18 13:12:21 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF4914F6B; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19271; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:11:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:11:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/libreadline FREEBSD-upgrade rlstdc.h CHANGELOG CHANGES MANIFEST Makefile.in README aclocal.m4 bind.c callback.c complete.c configure configure.in display.c funmap.c histexpand.c histfile.c histlib.h history.c history.h input.c ... In-Reply-To: <19990819000308.A953@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:40:54PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > What besides GDB is using libreadline? > > F.e. BC. Added to my list. > > I've got some code in the works that should allow libedit to be used as a > > drop-in for libreadline/libhistory. > > I object. Even bc/gdb can be covered, libreadline features are essential > for GNU soft possibly integrated into system in the future. Libreadline > have its own bugs which amount are enough to add libedit emulation bugs > here too. Indeed. While emulating the 'readline()' function is rather easy, emulating the rest of the interface is somewhat more difficult. I'm convinced that libedit offers a superior interface so I don't feel its all that desireable to try and fully emulate libreadline/history. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message