Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:28:36 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libedit / readline Message-ID: <20030510092836.GA373@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <1050859841.78636.18.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> References: <20030420171505.GE36951@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <1050859724.42322.14.camel@detention.home.ahk> <1050859841.78636.18.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
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# allbery@ece.cmu.edu / 2003-04-20 13:30:41 -0400:
> On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:28, Alex Kiesel wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 19:15, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > What I'd like to know is this: if libedit is meant to be a drop-in
> > > replacement for readline, why doesn't it export readline()?
> >
> > Is it really? Hm, readline is in the base system. Why don't you link
> > against it?
>
> editline() is intended to be a replacement for readline(), but not a
> drop-in replacement; or at least that's been my understanding of it.
Let me repeat my question: *why* is readline() left out of libedit?
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