From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 16 2:33:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3A5F37B405; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 16 Jul 2001 10:33:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:33:51 +0100 From: David Malone To: Kris Kennaway 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> References: <20010716013127.A16058@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010716013127.A16058@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:31:27AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message