Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:07:06 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use of readline() Message-ID: <199706230307.UAA11830@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:24:20 +0930 (CST) Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > Could the author, or a regular user, of libedit comment on how it > might be possible to reduce the spastic amount (code-wise) of overhead > required for its use? Is there a straightforward initialisation > function that does sensible things such as picking the mode and > history size from the environment, allocates the history buffer, etc > rather than requiring every consuming application to reinvent the > wheel? Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org> is the author. The person who has done the most work on/with it recently is Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>. You might want to ask them. > If not, would said author consent to such a function being added to the > library in order to achieve such a goal? "See above." :-) Most recently, Luke has converted our (NetBSD's :-) ftp(1) to use libedit... it has history, and context-sensitive command and local/remote filename completion. It's darn cool :-) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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