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Date:      20 Apr 2003 13:30:41 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Alex Kiesel <alex.kiesel@document-root.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: libedit / readline
Message-ID:  <1050859841.78636.18.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
In-Reply-To: <1050859724.42322.14.camel@detention.home.ahk>
References:  <20030420171505.GE36951@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <1050859724.42322.14.camel@detention.home.ahk>

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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.

-- 
brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]



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